“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He equated then a normal physical performance, from the standpoint of his condition, as an impossible perfect performance, while feeling that nothing short of perfection would please you.

“Because dreams are such a perfect combination of stimuli from the inner environment and the exterior environment, other events are often used to trigger inner dream messages, just as the opposite occurs. [...]

Now: Dictation: There is a constant give and take between each individual and his or her society; the divisions and characteristics of any particular civilization will be a perfect exterior representation of the overall attributes of the people within it, as they relate to one another and as they see themselves.

[...] They are perfectly harmless parts of your personality that you have not accepted fully. [...]

[...] My sight was operating perfectly, but it took a while before my hearing worked. (In good projections, all senses are super-perfect). [...]

[...] I walked out to the center of the room which now was perfectly normal, but had difficulty walking and remembered that in my case, at least, this sometimes happens when I’m close to my body. [...]

[...] I felt it hard and round, perfectly normal in my astral hand. [...]

Here is another example, also from my own records, in which I struggled to maintain proper consciousness and perfect a projection. [...]

If you have been told, again, that the spirit is good, in fact perfect, and that you must then be perfect in all of your ways, while at the same time you believe in the imperfection of the body, you will always be in conflict with yourself.

[...] It is on the one hand ritualized, and on the other hand perfectly spontaneous. [...]

[...] The perfectly happy life for example, on the surface, may appear splendid, but it may also be basically shallow and do little to develop the personality.

[...] It is this — to perfect inner knowledge, and to materialize it as faithfully as possible outward into the world. [...]

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

He thought of that realm as eternal and unchanging, a perfect but frozen composite that must indeed inspire men toward achievement on the one hand, and on the other reproach them for their failure, since their achievements must necessarily seem puny in contrast. [...]

[...] [I read later that females and the young live in groups, the adult males usually alone—perfectly suitable accommodations of consciousness for raccoons!] “Coons can’t run fast,” Floyd told us, “and big dogs will attack ‘em if they catch them out in the open in the daytime. [...]

The same alterations apply of course for fortunate events, which may be experienced through full physical expression, or through a series of manifestations that might also involve social or economic happenings, or the occurrence of splendid weather conditions, dash—the insertion of excellent, almost perfect summerlike days, or whatever. [...]

[...] He need not try to be the perfect self, then, the super-image—and in fact to some extent found himself the supplicative (self?), knocking upon creaturehood’s earthly door, as any creature might ask aid from another who found himself wounded through misadventure. [...]

[...] Equally important, too was Seth’s idea that Jane no longer needed to try to be “the perfect self.” [...]

[...] Tell him that in that order of events he can walk so well at this point, now, that anyone would have to look twice to discover that he was not walking perfectly. [...]

[...] He used the last episode (on the back stairs) to trigger an important development in walking up the stairs, but he is not to imagine that everyone else is perfect because they look all right; then he deals with absolutes, becomes frightened, and exaggerates his condition, thinking in physical terms alone and forgetting those inner abilities of his, of creativity, that are indeed so important.

[...] The body is an artistic creation, and in certain terms you create many bodies, each one perfectly mirroring your beliefs. [...]

[...] I thought that Dr. Instream’s reception would be perfectly fine, and that in this tape Seth, and Jane, had made their points just as they wanted to.

[...] The same psychic directional sense can be perfected, so that as he roams over fields of experience Ruburt will know when he is on to the proper signals.

[...] Then I let him alone, and see if he can tell by himself when he makes an error, for it is this inner manipulation that we are interested in perfecting. [...]

[...] The way to help them, however, is to perfect your own craft—your beliefs—so that others can use them also. [...]

[...] You are told that the spirit is perfect, and so you can try to live up to standards of perfection quite impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] It means that within the gradations offered you will not have a good time, but will compare what you have with a “perfect” freedom that Ruburt now does not possess. [...]

[...] The inner conditions are being righted, but Ruburt must see himself in his mind walking better—not perfectly but better for now, and he has begun in point of power to learn how to do that.

(“With something revolving, and with an oval shape that is not a perfect circle.” [...] Directly in back of the painting is a large circular ceramic sculpture, perhaps a foot in diameter, that is more egg-shaped than a perfect circle. [...]

With something revolving, and with an oval shape that is not a perfect circle. [...]

Now ideally the body could at once heal itself, so that in the next moment he walked with perfect ease. [...]

[...] You must have patience while these abilities develop, while Ferd learns to perfect his own communication process, and while you learn to perfect your receptive abilities.