“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Underneath the missing portion I saw the fresh pink flesh of new growth. [...]

People with life-threatening diseases also often feel that further growth, development, or expansion are highly difficult, if not impossible to achieve at a certain point in their lives. [...]

[...] An onion comes up from the earth and the growth principle is within it; and imagine our poor onion in the earth. [...] He may even hallucinate such a giant onion but all the time the principle of vitality and power and growth is All That Is, and all of it that you can understand at this point, is within the onion. [...]

[...] However there is no rule, then, saying that the reincarnating personality must take over the new form prepared for it either at the point of conception, in the very earliest months of the fetus’s growth, or even at the point of birth.

[...] The personality can simply realize that it takes to physical experience well, is presently earth-oriented, and finds earthly atmosphere a rich dimension for the growth of its own abilities.

[...] The first question I presume refers to growth in the terms in which growth is usually considered, a coming toward maturity in terms of physical and mental approach to a hoped-for fulfillment.

[...] Growing up, to your way of thinking, implies a growth or expansion also of physical stuff. [...]

Play is a very important — indeed, vital — attribute in the development of growth and fulfillment. [...]

[...] Luckily, the child usually walks before it is old enough to be taught that impulses are wrong, and luckily the child’s natural impulses toward exploration, growth, fulfillment, action and power are strong enough to give it the necessary springboard before your belief systems begin to erode its confidence. [...]

[...] The growth of separate tribal cultures, for example, and later of nations, could emerge only through a sense of separation, and a certain kind of alienation. [...]

The growth of ideas space-wise was a prerequisite. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment operates within microbes and nations, within individual creatures and entire species, and it unites all of life’s manifestations so that indeed creatures and their environments are united in an overall cooperative venture — a venture in which each segment almost seeks to go beyond itself in creativity, growth, and expression. [...]

[...] A growth of Bill, if you prefer, and that can be your personal key to contact. [...]

[...] In all forms of life each individual is born into a world already provided for it, with circumstances favorable to its growth and development; a world in which its own existence rests upon the equally valid existence of all other individuals and species, so that each contributes to nature’s whole.

The exterior improvements are the result of inner body workings, and they represent the growth of his inner confidence. [...]

(Long pause.) With the growth of this particular variety of self-consciousness came the exteriorization, magnification and intensification of definite elements that lie latent in other animals, the individuation of strong emotional activity to a new degree, for example. [...]

[...] Overall there is also the world situation to be taken into consideration — the status of the species on the planet, in which, say, overpopulation problems will bring about death to insure new growth.

[...] And All That Is, or in your terms, God, is not a static being but always creative and always changing, so do not put yourself at a particular level of experience and stay there but allow yourself growth and freedom. [...]

(To Garrett.) Now, you are achieving some growth and freedom in your dream state. [...]

[...] Therefore, you are ready for growth. There is no growth without strain, without the shattering of old barriers and the learning or new responsibilities but these responsibilities are experienced as joys. [...]

[...] Because the entire mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual portions of the self are always stimulated to seek further growth and development and satisfaction, then it is quite possible for the mind to seize upon even the smallest event that will spontaneously release the person at least momentarily from depression, or even despair.

[...] You do not understand pollution or growth well enough yet, but food simply should not be allowed in this room. [...]

[...] In terms of ego consciousness, however, there were stages of growth; and the god concepts that spoke of oneness with nature were not those that served the ego’s purposes in the line of development as you understand it (deliberately).

[...] In historic terms, as you understand them, the “progression” of religion gives you a perfect picture of the development of human consciousness, the differentiation of peoples and nations, and the growth of the ideas of the “individual.”

(9:25.) Your idea of development and growth, again, implies a one-line march toward perfection, so it would be difficult for you to imagine the kind of order that pervades. [...]

[...] She then experienced a tremendous feeling of growth. [...] Everything maintained its relative scale, but there was this enormous feeling of growth, as though each of us grew to the size of elephants, Jane said.