“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] So why all the other hash in life, I wondered? [...]

(Pause.) In a strange fashion in your life to date, you managed to think of yourself apart from your age. [...]

[...] The same goes for the current theories of “the origin of life” in scientific terms. [...]

[...] You do not trust your own spontaneity of motion—but spontaneity of motion is a true order of all life, in whatever form. [...]

The overly conscientious self is life-sustaining, however. [...]

[...] A suggestion that gaiety and frivolity are also natural aspects of life, and joyful celebrations of existence, harmless, in fact beneficial play exercises on the part of the soul, will help here.

[...] To save life, to save American lives. [...] In that regard, America’s good was not Japan’s, and an act taken to “save life” was also designed to take individual lives.

[...] The head of the family is also someone with whom you are acquainted, being in this life the husband of your present mother’s niece. That English existence had much to do with your family and its relationships in this life. [...]

[...] But as in your life certain environments tend to encourage some people in the realization of their talents, and seem to hinder others in the development of their peculiar talents, so some personalities expand in their capabilities on your plane; and some who do rather poorly on your plane expand surprisingly on other planes.

[...] And so the ability to use this vitality well is as necessary to life as is the necessity to use air for breathing.

[...] It is not even the case on planes that you might consider lower than your own, nor is it the case with some portions of life that you consider beneath you on your own plane.

[...] You may physically visit the “very same planet” on which they reside, but to you the planet will appear barren, or not able to support life.

You imagine that your own earth is mapped out, and all frontiers known, but the linear aspects of your planet’s life represent a most minute portion of its reality.

[...] He was not sure enough of his new world; he was still enough a part of the old one so that he often saw his life and abilities through the eyes of the “old world inhabitants” — the others who might scorn him, or set him up for ridicule.¹³ They represented portions of his own psyche still at that level of consciousness, not having quite assimilated the greater knowledge or experience, so he felt he needed protection — the protection that would … cleverly … serve all of his purposes, allowing him to go ahead as he wanted to … that would keep him at home working, and yet also serve as a control against too much inner spontaneity until he learned that he could indeed trust the new world of experience.

[...] The idea of an infinitely expanding universe, with all of its stars ultimately burned out and all life extinct, is still the view largely accepted today; it’s based on the red shift measurements of some of the supposedly receding galaxies, their apparent brightnesses, the “missing mass” of the universe, and other very technical data. [...]

“The present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. [...]

[...] His whole outlook on life seemed brighter as of that moment.

[...] Besides, I’ve learned as much about my family tonight as I have all my life. [...]

[...] Far more is involved in the experience of life, however, than the satisfaction of bare needs, for life is everywhere possessed with a desire toward quality—a quality that acknowledges the affirming characteristics of pleasure itself.

[...] (Pause.) As your private conscious life is lived in a community setting of one kind or another as a rule, so do your dreams take place in the same context, so that as you dream for yourself, to some extent you also dream for your own family, for your community, and for the world.

Until this life the communications involved have been in outward manifestation. [...]

[...] Nevertheless this life begins a new phase, where the communication involved will be, indeed, of a different variety. [...]

[...] Is it any wonder that the conscious mind does not retain in one life memory of its other existences?

This should lead you to understand why physical time is basically meaningless to the subconscious, and why the inner self has at its command a knowledge of past lives and past endeavors; for the inner self, dear friends, these lives are not in the past, nor is the life of the ego necessarily present to the whole self.

[...] And indeed, for your own edification your life in general will be much more comfortable within what I would call a short time; though to you this may be two years, before a noticeable change is apparent.

I tell you that you are indeed headed for more comfortable times, but this does not mean that there is not very much within your own daily life now to be thankful for. [...]

Now Ruburt was always a rebel in this life. [...]

[...] Ruburt tried to put his understanding to practical use in terms of daily life, your relationship, work, finances, his classes, yet he found himself with definite physical hassles. [...]

The codicils will offer new hypotheses upon which private life can be based, and in this they are highly important. [...]

[...] Each cell, however, has its own consciousness, and when I speak of consciousness as being an attribute of cellular life, I speak only for convenience, since actually cellular life is an attribute of consciousness.

Chemicals themselves will simply not give rise to consciousness or to life. [...]

[...] If parents believe that the body is somehow an inferior vehicle for the spirit, or if they simply view the body as unreliable or weak and vulnerable, then children will at an early age begin to consider good health as a rarity, and learn to take depression, poor spirits, and bodily aches and pains to be a natural, normal condition of life.

[...] I make no attempt to dominate Ruburt’s private life nor, indeed would I expect him to allow it. [...]

[...] not being responsive to my own life....

[...] (I should have asked which book.) The questions that you have jointly because of your experience in this life so far will lead you to answers that will help many as well as yourselves. [...]

[...] Told my class last night the whole bit, and said that from now on classes were to be focused about the material; we were going to study it from scratch; this was my life work, my direction, what I was meant to do. [...]

So, when I “meet” another, I may be able to relate to him much better on the basis of a particular past life experience, even though in my “now” we have little in common. [...]

[...] On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

For our long-haired blonde friend, (Marilyn Wilbur), shortly a new element, another person who will play a significant part in her life, for either a long or brief period. [...]

[...] My question was not meant to pry into a personal life, merely to obtain what I thought would be interesting information about a certain dream related to me by Dr. Colucci’s nurse, voluntarily.)

[...] I also thought portions of the manuscript itself were intriguing, quite acute, mixed up with Fred’s obsessions and compulsions, his personal life and family, his far-out ideas, his attempts and frustrations as he tried to use the manuscript as a vehicle toward understanding himself as he attempted to uncover the secrets of his personality: He thought them locked away from his understanding by the very device he had chosen of speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] The car could have been sitting there running itself as far as any other signs of life were concerned. [...]