“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To Maria.) You judged your probable self far too harshly.

(To Ron L.) And our friend, Edgar, judges the self that he knows far too harshly and do not ask me what I mean by the statement.

[...] You judge yourselves too harshly. [...]

You judge the world harshly also. [...]

You are compassionate toward others, and judge yourselves harshly. [...]

[...] With the birth of the conscious mind in man, however, the self who acts needed a way to judge its actions. [...]

It can judge whether an action is a constructive or an impeding one for itself. [...] And in such cases the ego is not equipped to judge, except for itself.

[...] When this destructive possibility has passed however, an illness that is still maintained would therefore become a definite impeding action; for any seemingly impeding action cannot be judged alone, but in the context of other action elements of which any given personality is involved.

[...] The ego simply cannot judge, as a rule, whether an action is a constructive or an impeding one, for the personality as a whole.

[...] It needed the existence of a sophisticated memory system in which new situations and experiences could be judged against recalled ones, and evaluations made in an in-between moment of reflection.

[...] Man would not be able to recall past acts, judge them against the present situation, or imagine the future sense of guilt that might result.

[...] You must realize that you are judging your behavior by standards that are very high indeed, and that you are in a situation in which, say, all of the facts are not yet in. You have been geared to disapprove of yourselves, you have been taught to judge your performance in a very shallow fashion, according to social mores and sexual affiliation, and when you are breaking out of those patterns, you may indeed feel betwixt and between. [...]

[...] You were judging yourself, and have, with some regularity, according to those standards. [...]

[...] It does not matter which of you handles the business end, as long as you have as much peace of mind as possible, and as long as you judge events as clearly as possible, according to their actual proportion as apart from their emotionally charged symbolic content. [...]

[...] I will judge therefore the duration of any given session in this light.

[...] The Catholic Church judged evil thoughts as evil deeds, and to some extent this is valid. [...]

[...] There is the tendency to judge such inner experience in terms of reliable physical assumptions, this being an error. [...]

If you are trying to judge such an experience in terms of physical root assumptions, then it will be meaningless. [...]

[...] Often as a result of the conflict between the need for obedient behavior toward adults, and the need for independent growth and activity that might well be judged as rebellious by the elders.

(8:52.) You judge the world, but in far more rigorous terms morally than either of you really realize. [...]

[...] A land in which things must be judged thus-and-so, a land in which people disappear as much as possible into established family and social roles, where the lines are clearly marked. [...]

Now: generally again, such communities have teachers, judges, lawyers, dentists, some farmers on the outskirts of town, some factory workers, a sufficient number of ministers, and some car lots. [...]

(11:51.) You have had in the past to some extent a disdain, because of your beliefs about yourself, for people perhaps met on the streets during business or working hours, or for people who did not have jobs, or who did not punch a time clock or whatever, and it is by those attitudes that you judge yourself (intently), and find yourself wanting in the eyes, say, of your brothers. [...]

[...] Your nation, because of its greatness and ideals, must judge itself accordingly against those ideals. It therefore cannot afford to judge itself against others, find itself superior, and rest. [...] It is against these, then, that you must judge yourself.

[...] Do not judge yourself against the performance of anyone else in this class. [...]

[...] You are the judge. [...]

Now, we have had 560 sessions with our friend, Ruburt, and our friend, Joseph, and many other sessions that they call bootleg Seth material, that are not in the records, and they are far from perfect so do not judge yourselves too harshly. [...]

(To Bette.) So do not turn aside from that endeavor, and again do not judge the information that you get in the terms in which you are used to judging it. [...]

[...] Using the root assumptions just mentioned as a basis for judging reality, an observer would insist that the objects were not real, for they do not behave as he believes objects must. [...]

[...] If you try to judge such an experience with physical root assumptions, it will be meaningless. [...]

[...] There is a natural tendency to continue judging experience against these assumptions, however. [...]

[...] So you thought of yourself as an artist, primarily, and judged your success, or lack of it, through that focus, and generally through that focus only.

Ruburt saw himself as a writer, and judged himself through that focus, and other accomplishments that did not rigidly adhere to that focus were not considered successes, or even were jealously regarded as detriments. [...]

[...] Obviously it will be difficult to judge a good sitter before the fact unless Ruburt follows his own intuitions. [...]

[...] If you judge yourself according to the physical self that you know, then you must be filled again by doubts because again instinctively, you know that you are more. [...]

[...] The fine and terrible weapon of the intellect should, indeed, terrify even the gods, for there it sits atop of your heads so sure of its function and its worth and its permanence, and its knowledge and it judges everything according to those rules which it has itself established. [...]

[...] Do not judge your feelings. [...]

[...] What we need are more skeptics who are not afraid to judge the claims of science with the same fine discrimination used to examine other alternate disciplines and fields of endeavor. [...]

[...] Sumari came through with an experience involving Phil, who was on trial, Pete K., and Jed Martz as witnesses, Richard as the judge and Natalie as the scribe. [...]