“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When you first learned to write in school, you had to be taught how to form the letters. You made many mistakes. Finally, however, you could form the letters quite easily. You felt triumphant. You forgot the mistakes you had made in the past. You had accomplished something.

Then you were told that you had to put those letters together to make words. Again you made many mistakes, and forgot them as with delight you now wrote separate words. Then you were told to put the words into sentences, and you followed the same procedure. You forgot your mistakes. Were you stupid or dumb—or an asshole—when you could only form simple letters? Obviously not. Your aspirations and your curiosity kept leading you toward a more complete development, until you could finally read and write whole paragraphs.

These were all stages of development, then, and the same applies to your life. Your so-called mistakes exist as mistakes only in the light of your aspirations to perform better, to express more fully developed experiences, rather than to write better sentences.

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less-developed acts than those to which you now aspire. Whenever you catch yourself disapproving of yourself for past mistakes, read these passages. Do not check on yourself all the time. Trust that you will learn what you want to learn as automatically as you once learned to read or speak, or as automatically as you think.

[...] Were these decisions mistakes?

[...] At the same time almost I realized quite clearly that I’d made a mistake; I hadn’t done anything wrong and the position was needless. [...]

A mistake is when you do not know what you are doing, when momentarily, you lose sight of your goals or when you do not live up to them. You can turn a mistake into a challenge. If you make a mistake you can learn from it because you realize it is your fault. [...]

([Florence:] “What is the difference between an accident and a mistake?”)

(Long pause, eyes closed.) Such attitudes and dire misinterpretations often occur as mistakes in reading life, as if you insert an extra vowel or syllable that does not belong, but change the interpretation of an entire passage. Let the mistake, then, be erased.

[...] She made no mistakes in delivery, did not lose her way, make any changes or corrections of any kind, at all. [...]

[...] However, she is not operating at full entity level any more than you are, so you cannot rely upon her intuitions to catch all the mistakes that you may make.

(Meaning mistakes on the part of both of us, Jane said.

[...] No one is going to mistake Ruburt for a fanatic, or a psychic nut, or whatever. [...]

[...] Do not be so afraid of failure or of making mistakes. [...]

[...] People, however, often identify with their seeming mistakes, forgetting (pause) their abilities in other directions, so that it seems that they are misfits in the universe, or in the world. [...]

[...] She made many mistakes, and I helped her out at times. [...]

[...] Each buyer is sent to me by the creative intelligence of my subconscious mind, which makes no mistakes. [...]

[...] I suggest you read the late sessions again, and I imagine that by our next session you will both be in a better frame of mind, unless you allow your discouraging feelings to predominate, which would be a vast mistake.

[...] In narrow terms you can say that you both made a mistake. [...] You simply happen to be dealing with the area of activity in which terms like “mistake” appears valid. [...]

(11:47 PM.) Tell Ruburt not to waste time crying over his mistakes. [...]

[...] We had been using our recorder earlier but were not recording these monotonous inductions, and as will be seen this was a mistake on my part.

[...] My own thought, as soon as he began to speak, was that I had made a mistake in method, since his appearance was a complete surprise to our guests. [...]

(Jane had become increasingly nervous on the job, and finally made a mistake on her register which cost her 13.00.

[...] He would have tried to make a serious mistake at this time. [...]

[...] Jane did push for the Elmira move, feeling instinctively that Sayre was a mistake.

[...] Any other mistakes you both may have made are more than made up for because of this. [...]

[...] Therefore, you may be punished in this life for errors you have committed in a past one, or you may actually be making up for a mistake made thousands of years ago. [...]

[...] In such cases death is not experienced by the organism as a failure, or as a biological mistake. [...]

(10:09.) If you mistake the symbols for the reality, however, you will program your experience, and you will insist that each forest look like the pictures in your book. [...]

A mistake or error. [...]

(“A mistake or error.” [...]

[...] As stated on page 120 after the “mistake” data, the last time Jane saw Marjorie was when job hunting. [...]

A mistake of sorts connected here somewhere. [...]

(Jane tells me that “a mistake of sorts connected here somewhere” could refer to a mix-up concerning the room we had rented at the motel, but I do not recall this personally. [...]