“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The idea of disclosure however is more important, for you remember that your mother did not like to have her photograph taken. If you included any pictures of her, would she be annoyed? She did not like to have her picture taken on the one hand because she feared disclosure, and on the other hand, because her sense of perfection was affected—particularly in later years by an imperfect image.

You understand that private experience, imperfect but creative, underlies the points in “Unknown” Reality. Creatively you see the photographs’ value, but they still caused a conflict between your ideas of perfection and self-disclosure, particularly as they were related to your mother’s attitudes.

It is one thing to understand the imperfections of medicine, but quite another if you are not willing to take one to two hours a week to work with techniques that are highly important to improve your own health. [...]

And next: All of my imperfections, and all of the imperfections of other creatures, are redeemed in the greater scheme of the universe in which I have my being.

[...] Ruburt felt that his symptoms were, in your eyes, the concrete indications of his imperfections. [...] You would not accept him with the symptoms as an imperfect being, and love him anyway. [...]

[...] With you home, it seemed, you only noticed his imperfections more.

[...] The two of you were in one room together, where Ruburt felt his imperfections could not be hidden.

[...] As long as you dwell on your own imperfections you accept that god, and it has no meaning in reality. [...]

[...] She has of course had contacts with the book, aside from her own imperfect memory. [...]

[...] In fact, that kind of rage is the mark of a perfectionist caught in what seems to be the grasp of a world not only imperfect, but evil.

[...] They serve as a constant reminder of his imperfections—but imperfections in relationship to what? The same to a lesser extent applies to you.

[...] And determined that he would try to circumvent it—hence your sketches in Dialogues; for despite your avid and determined dislike of the marketplace and its imperfections, of which he is more aware than you think, he thought that he would still see to it that your talent was placed to some extent at least before the world —rail as you would against the stupidities and poor craftsmanship. [...]

[...] The belief in illness itself depends upon a belief in human unworthiness, guilt and imperfection, for example.

[...] Every so often I do get glimpses, imperfect ones, that living is easy, that we are safe, each and every one of us, that we’re never annihilated, that mundane worries about money, insurance, jobs, and so forth are in deeper terms quite beside the point. [...]

1. Photosynthesis is the imperfectly understood process by which the green chlorophyll in plants uses the energy of sunlight to manufacture carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide. [...]

[...] In our imperfect understanding, Jane and I and other family members saw this process go on: We did not feel there was much any of us could do.

[...] He is afraid you will see him as he is, then, and wash your hands of such imperfection. [...]

[...] I paid no attention to the beggars, or people who showed imperfection...I used to taunt you. [...]

[...] Do not judge the whole inner world by the disjointed images that you may at first perceive, or by the sounds that you may at first hear, for you will still be using your inner senses quite imperfectly.

[...] Plato conceived [of] it as the world of ideals, seeing within it the perfect model behind each imperfect physical phenomenon.

[...] It dealt with the idea that imperfections in the universe gave birth to life and all we know—that if the “big bang” had expanded perfectly uniformly there would be no life in the universe, merely a perfectly uniform cloud of lifeless hydrogen gas. [...]

[...] It is imperfect, but it is pliable and willing to change. [...]

As lovers can see the “ideal” in their beloved, and yet be well aware of certain inadequacies, certain deviations from the ideal, so can you, loving yourself, realize that what you think of as imperfections are instead gropings toward more complete becoming. [...]

This does not mean that the individual will necessarily fall ill to many of them, but it does mean that the physical structure has weak points that reflect, or are a result of, an inability along the lines of physical construction, that in turn result from an imperfection in manipulation.