“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His release will also have its effect upon your own subjective life.

[...] Being an artist is a natural way of life with you. [...]

[...] Not only now but for the rest of your life. [...]

[...] It does not try to form life conditions that offer no challenges, quite the reverse in fact. [...]

[...] It forms another life situation and discovers the answer. [...]

[...] In many cases the other is a younger individual who is more resilient, has more energy, a more instinctive use of the life force, who is better able to bear the problems for the whole unit, and who will actually escape from them. [...]

[...] You feared that in life she was always wounded by photographs because they showed her to be so far less than she wanted herself to be or appear.

He was indeed expressing the ideal of his life to a far greater degree than most, but in those areas, where its expression lagged, the contrast seemed so varied in your joint eyes as to make the ideal seem a lie by contrast. [...]

[...] Despite that belief, however, you have both managed to express the ideal, and to clear, whether you realize it or not, one area of life after another.

[...] They will be together, I believe, and you should add them to your people series; for one you have known before, and the other influenced your life at one time, though you did not know him personally. [...]

[...] The deepest, most basic and abiding subjective experience is translated however into those natural elements; the ample landscape that sustains physical life.

Throughout the ages some have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness and purpose in certain dream and sleep states, and have maintained, even in waking life, the sense of continuity of this inner self. [...]

[...] At the same time, we end up wishing we’d done exactly that, so we feel caught in some ways that we don’t think others have to bother with, or understand in life.

[...] Those readers teach their children, and so you help create a new mental and psychic atmosphere that in physical terms will long outlast this life.

[...] I told you that in certain terms this was the last life for each of you, your breaking-off points. [...]

Then on October 23 Jane’s creative contentions led to her “attend” material—in which she picked up from Seth that her only responsibility in life is to herself: “Attend to what is directly before you.” [...]

[...] There is so much you must learn and remember in life, and so much you must spontaneously forget—otherwise, action itself would be relatively meaningless.

[...] With the kind of consciousness you possess, an overreliance upon conserving principles could then end up in a reduction of life’s processes.

(9:01.) In private living and in so-called evolutionary terms, however, life necessitates the intrusion of surprising events, unforeseen actions, leaps of insight or behavior that could not come alone from any accumulation of knowledge or simple conservation of energy, but seem to suggest entirely different new developments.

[...] He forgot, once again, that the creative self is aware of his entire life, and that his impulses have a creative purpose. [...]

[...] They are carriers of pictures and images, and expectations—the threads with which you form the sparkling web of physical life.

[...] Thus each card is, in fact, a moment of the life of the being and the progressive change represents growth. [...]

[...] Rob “knew” that he was seeing the bedroom in which his brother, Dick, had died in a past life in England. [...]

[...] Seth told Rob that he’d seen only part of the room, described the rest of it and gave further details about Dick’s English life. [...]

[...] Words really come to life as he speaks them.)

“Seth,” Rob said, “Jane had several confused dreams in which she seemed to be getting or giving instructions in life readings.”

Your experience of history, of the days of your life, is invisibly formed by those ideas that exist in the imagination only, and then are projected upon the physical world. [...]

[...] It is instead a fanatical Puritan vein, peculiarly American in character, and restrictive rather than expansive, for the bursts of emotion are highly structured — that is, the emotions are limited in most areas of life, permitted only an explosive religious expression under certain conditions, when they are not so much spontaneously expressed as suddenly released from the dam of usual repression.

[...] Christ himself left no written records, nor are there any eyewitness or contemporary accounts of his life.

[...] His life was one of those that were finally used to compose the composite image of the biblical Christ.” [...]

[...] Once the personality realizes that even in life on your plane he is not always bound by physical data, and that even in physical life the most real portion of him is independent of physical matter, and in a personal way, then he will not fear death as a personal ending.

[...] I am trying to show you here that many experiences in everyday life, which you know by their vividness to be valid, cannot be perceived by the outer senses. [...]

[...] But because they are so intertwined with the inner life they are also common to both the ego and the so-called subconscious.

[...] Recognition in physical life of the whole self would do much to negate this death fear, since there are rather pleasant psychological experiences which are akin to the experience of death, and which would prepare the personality for this eventuality.

[...] Six months before starting “Unknown” Reality, however, he made a few remarks that I’ve applied ever since to life in our physical reality: “Each person chooses his or her parents, accepting in terms of environment and heredity a bank of characteristics, attitudes, and abilities from which to draw in physical life. [...]

[...] When this (photograph) of Ruburt³ was taken, he had already become aware of the overall interests and concerns that would dominate his future life, although the particular course of it had not been chosen.

[...] That child (in the photo) joined a nunnery, where she learned to regulate mystical experience according to acceptable precepts — but to express it nevertheless with some regularity, continuously, in a way of life that at least recognized its existence.

You began to feel, years later, as Ruburt did: that creativity was in its way dangerous, that it would lead you outside of accepted social structures, and definitely must be protected against normal family life.

[...] I seemed to be taller and thinner than I am in this life. [...]

[...] I’m not getting this clear but the feeling was like you’re supposed to demonstrate truth through your life and my symptoms sort of were the opposite, or indicated the opposite; not only didn’t I heal others but not even myself. [...]

[...] Can you use such knowledge beneficially to improve your daily life? [...]

3. In Buddhism, nirvana — a state of heavenly perfection — is achieved by the extinction of individual life and the soul’s absorption into the supreme spirit.

Your psychological life is dependent upon your ability to perceive and react to such action-events. [...]

[...] If death is considered the end of all, then for all practical purposes individuals in physical life will behave as if this were indeed the case.

([Joel:] “Well, it’s not this one reincarnational period, I’m sure, and today I still think the Indians had and have a better life philosophy, a purer kind of thing.”

([Joel:] “How about if you met your husband sometime in this life. [...]

[...] All you have to do is realize that within yourself is the ability to face each life, each day as a life, as you come to it. [...]

[...] The sexual ideas of domination and submission have no part in the natural life of your species, or that of the animals. [...]

[...] The female principle then became connected with the earth and all those elements of its life over which you as a species hoped to gain power.