“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If our words could not convince him, or his own understanding grasp the truth, then you had the “truth” uttered with all the medical profession’s authority—and if once a doctor had told him years ago how excellent was his hearing, the medical profession now told him that his slowness [his thyroid deficiency], helped impair his hearing to an alarming degree. [...]

I know what happened, and yet consciously I’ll never grasp all of the psychic ramifications involved. [...]

[...] She partially grasped what I told her. [...]

[...] When you are no longer blind, all possibilities that belong to the sighted (pause), come at least within your grasp. [...]

(But so fearful and reluctant are we to face or to grasp ideas about death that run counter to what we’ve been taught, that we’ll literally do almost anything to ourselves in order to prevent nature’s plan from working in its own natural and creative way. [...]

[...] Even if she didn’t grasp the issues involved, as Seth said, did this give her the freedom to so abuse another? [...]

[...] You must both have the strength and courage to grasp it.

[...] This is not easy to do, but it is within the grasp of each individual. [...]

2. Long before this, Seth was concerned that Jane said I might feel insignificant once we attempted to grasp the endless ramifications of consciousness as he was explaining them to us. [...]

At the age of 25, however, (nine years before the beginning of the sessions), Jane expressed an intuitive grasp of the moment point in these lines of her poem, More Than Men:

[...] We freeze them, so to speak, in order that we might hold them within our grasp, but we cannot, nor is there a time, as such, when they will be completed or finished.

In either case when conditions are right, you should feel a sense of recognition, a sense of grasping a portion of the center of your own reality. [...]

[...] (Her eyes wide and dark, Jane held up her hands, fingers bent as though ready to grasp — or claw.) When he was a cave dweller,³ man saw these birds often, particularly in cliffs by water. [...]

[...] Within its great reaches it would transform its counterparts’ actions in ways that were, quite possibly, beyond our emotional and intellectual grasp. [...]

[...] Checking backward through past sessions and Jane’s poetry, I soon learned that her intuitive grasp of the term had always been truer than mine, for I’d carried the idea that “counterpart” implied a status of opposites rather than the complementary one it really does. [...]

Now some of you who read this book will immediately and intuitively grasp what I am saying, for you will have already suspected that you are viewing experience through highly distorted, though colorful, figurative lenses. [...]

[...] are always within your grasp, ready to appear in physical actuality.

[...] He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

Most of the declared instances of telepathy or clairvoyance that happen in schizophrenic situations are instead the individual’s attempts to prove to himself or herself that the idealized qualities of omnipotence or power are indeed within grasp—this, of course, to compensate for the basic feeling of powerlessness in more ordinary endeavors. [...]

[...] You do not understand the great mobility of thought, nor grasp its practical nature. [...]

[...] Some will intuitively understand the material far better than others who may grasp it intellectually but without emotional comprehension.

[...] This should be easy to grasp, for if you tried to understand physical life having only a group of snapshots taken at different places and in different times, then it would be rather difficult to form a clear idea of the nature of the physical world.