“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But in dreams you often do work quite as valid as any performed in the day, and in the dream state you meet and interact with your own reincarnational selves.

[...] Part of the difficulty in what Ruburt thinks of as the development of his abilities, or the more frequent insertion of inspirational work of his own, is the very fact that he feels so responsible to so thusly perform. [...]

[...] In the same way, however, once, you had to learn to deal with gravity, to deal with space and time, to manipulate in a world of objects, to simply breathe, to digest your food, and to perform all of the biological manipulations that now you take for granted (all most emphatically).

[...] Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given “time” in quotes, it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy.

[...] The ideal in their minds becomes so great that they are always dissatisfied with their own performance yet they are afraid to make a start.

[...] That is one thing; but if an individual believes that it is literally impossible for him to travel from one end of the continent to another, or to change his job, or perform any act, then the act becomes practically impossible. [...]

[...] This is not necessarily a fear, say, of performing inadequately, nor a fear of exposure in ordinary terms. [...]

[...] We thought the television adaptation contained many fine things, though—a number of excellent individual performances, although the story line was hard to follow over four episodes. [...]

Many of these actions performed by dream images are muscular ones, physical manipulations. But many of these actions are also mental manipulations or aesthetic realizations and even aesthetic performances. [...]

[...] One creative performance does not contradict the others.

[...] He might think that “aggressiveness,”⁶ competition, and emotional aloofness were required to perform that role. [...]

[...] I am referring to the other performer, et cetera—the circumstances which you know well.

[...] The crowds acclaim the sense of competition, the excitement, the rewards, and the belief in performance have all been responsible for the breaking of previous records. [...]

The concept of nirvana (see the 637th session in Chapter Nine) and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness, and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. [...]

If you are highly talented in any way, play the talent down or be extremely humble in its performance or expression, because other people will envy you, or be afraid of you, or try to drag you down “to their own level.”

[...] You are also quite correct, in that the ape also acted as an animal medicine man-woman (as in Personal Reality), symbolically acting out a part that once very well could have been performed in fact. [...]

[...] He is given tasks and each room, again, has been planned so that within it all methods of learning are available that the guest will need to perform his task. [...]

[...] On his part, he must make an effort to rise above the reinforced feelings of despair, and to assure himself that his body can perform adequately with time, and following these suggestions.

[...] And you perform work of which you are unaware as you go about your daily way. [...]

[...] You may speak with dead friends or relatives, revisit the past, greet old classmates, walk down streets that existed fifty years earlier in physical time, travel through space without taking any physical time to do so, be met by guides, be instructed, teach others, perform meaningful work, solve problems, hallucinate.

[...] Your dream perceptions seem physical — you walk, run, eat, and perform other physical functions. [...]