“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The approach should not be fear of war but love of peace; not fear of poor health but concentration upon the enjoyment of good health; not fear of poverty, but concentration upon the unlimited supplies available on your earth.

If you are focusing upon ideas of poverty, illness or lack, for example, your conscious mind also holds latently concepts of health, vigor and abundance. [...]

[...] In ordinary terms her behavior is an extreme — and I added that when I asked Seth about this, he countered by talking about the extremes of poverty in Africa, say, but he said precious little about Jane per se. [...]

[...] His mother’s death, the fact that you left your job, and his own growing understanding released him first in financial terms, because of an always latent knowledge and belief in the reality of abundance—his father did have abundance even while Ruburt believed in poverty as a child.

[...] In fact, poverty often serves as a strong impetus, leading the individual to fight for his or her daily needs.

In some lives, then, you are born in fortunate circumstances, and in others you may find an environment of poverty and want. [...]

[...] I don’t care what Seth says about the extremes of poverty, say, I think your behavior is extreme. [...]

As mentioned earlier you may have believed that of itself poverty was more spiritual than abundance, or that you were basically unworthy and should therefore punish yourself by being poor. [...]

[...] Even given their undeniable accomplishments, why didn’t the Eastern countries create ages ago the immortal societies that could have served as models for those of the West to emulate — cultures and/or nations in which all the mundane human vicissitudes (in those terms) had been long understood and abolished: war, crime, poverty, ignorance, and disease?

The poverty angle reaches in here for you both, but I intend to give you my own ideas and suggestions in the very near future. [...]

A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is learns little, because he cannot forget the wealth that is available to him. [...]

Despite all appearances, conditions of an exterior nature do not cause wars, or poverty, or disease, or any of the unfortunate circumstances apparent in the world. [...]

[...] Poverty is certain, depressions, and old age with the worst of imagined terrors. [...]

That analogy will help you at least intuitively understand the existence of situations such as suffering, and poverty, that otherwise seem to have no adequate explanations (as Jane and I were discussing today). I hope also to account for behavior on the part of nature that certainly seems to imply the survival of the fittest in a tooth-and-claw fashion, or the punishing acts of a vengeful God on the one hand and the triumph of an evil force on the other.

[...] Your wealth will accumulate because you no longer take poverty for granted. [...]

[...] Poverty in youth was counterbalanced by ideas of wealth because of the father’s background. [...]

[...] This does not mean that poverty leads to truth, or that suffering is good for the soul. [...]

[...] It should be noted, as Ruburt said, that the poverty angle was largely eradicated—yet you (to me) preserve it in your worries about taxes, for example—for those feelings of resentment still help you continue to feel impoverished and virtuous. [...]

[...] The world with its wars or disasters, its illnesses or poverty, its mass or private tragedies, seems to be thrust upon man or to happen—again without his consent.

The overemphasis, again, upon the work alone triggers the old fears about poverty, and toeing the mark and so forth, for it arouses worries about “making the work pay.” [...]