“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Had I told him, had I been able to, he would have recreated the problem in other terms, and worked it out in other ways. I did tell him, strongly, to finish the book, because until it was finished he did not even perceive the problem. [...]

[...] It was his problem and he worked it out in his own way. [...]

You know that he worked through problems, then, both physically and creatively. [...]

[...] If and when they worked out solutions to their problems, they did so quite unknowingly. [...]

Generally speaking, the best policy to pursue is to concentrate not upon the problem but upon its possible solutions, and this process can be a rather intense one. [...]

[...] The concentration should not be, again then, on the problems. [...]

[...] That focus inclines him to a quite literal insistence that his creative material should in its way act like some supernatural doctor’s prescription that can be at once taken like a pill to solve each and every problem of each and every correspondent, and of course to solve his own problems as well.

Then he feels that he is in at best an ambiguous position, for the world continues doing as it will, and his correspondents, solving one problem, immediately write with another. [...]

(At supper time this evening I explained a few problems of a technical nature, connected with my painting, to Jane. [...]

[...] Problems are often set as challenges, to be accepted and used for a greater purpose.

[...] No problem of technique will exist, in other words.

[...] I do not give readings or sessions for the public (nor do I charge fees or accept contributions), so the reincarnational readings were those we had for students, friends, or for those who had asked for assistance in a particularly tragic problem. [...]

[...] She had a particularly knotty problem and she wanted me to try to contact her deceased mother-in-law. [...]

[...] Note that this was not the life immediately past, but an earlier one in which problems were “shelved” until this existence:

After that life, however, Sally’s personality decided to take on the unfinished problems of development. [...]

(Wednesday’s session, the 579th, was held for a husband and wife who have an acute problem involving one of their children. [...]

The artist who paints such a scene may do so for several reasons: because he hopes through portraying such inhumanity to awaken people to its consequences, to make them quail and change their ways; because he is himself in such a state of disease and turmoil that he directs his abilities in that particular manner; or because he is fascinated with the problem of destruction and creativity, and of using creativity to portray destruction.

You’ve been largely operating from a base that isn’t naturally yours but was taken on as a result of your sympathy for the world and for the problems of others. [...]

[...] The problem was in consciously hiding the conflicts from himself, and in deciding upon a status quo. [...]

[...] The situation brought into focus, you see, the entire problem. [...]

[...] Ruburt wanted to plunge into it, but was afraid to not take the money for Adventures instead—hence the same problem in new and more dangerous form.

[...] That all of those contributed something to the overall problems?”)

Were the personality content between the two doors, there would for the present be little problems. [...]

[...] Having problems in the physical world, he may attempt to solve them through working them out on a dream basis, trying various solutions.

[...] Consciously he may not even know the problems which beset him, but which he has worked out on a subconscious level. [...]

When he dreamed the dream, and chose this possibility as the solution to his problems, he had already subconsciously chosen which event he would construct within the physical field.

[...] But we were glad we’d done something about a long-standing problem. [...]

(The staff had a party this noon for Susie, an aide who goes into surgery Friday for a kneecap problem, and I found plenty of food waiting for me in 330. [...]

[...] At last I began to idly speculate about the problems involved in explaining Seth to others; among these others being my boss at work, Harry Gottesman.

(Here too the problem of caring for her became acute, and again the relatives were told Miss Callahan could not stay. [...]

[...] There is no reason to suppose that such problems are insoluble; and also remember that problems between such personalities are often solved through interaction with other personalities.

[...] Nevertheless, one of the problems for the personality is still the need for a more disciplined ego.

[...] They are still working out old problems, and in some cases are doing very well.

[...] Some acquaintances were in your circle in various lives, and merely happened to be born in a like situation to your own because of problems that more or less corresponded to your own.

(Long pause at 9:23.) I have said this before: the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon various solutions vigorously—and then to turn your minds to other subjects, divert yourselves while allowing the creative power some freedom. [...]

[...] He blamed your mother for all of their problems. [...]

(A note: Yet Bill told me of his troubles with golf this season, lamenting how he has problems getting any distance in his drives, speaking of taking some lessons and practice in an effort to improve his game. [...]

[...] I am not speaking of the fact that your brother has a family and children and you do not, and I am not forgetting you have problems. [...]

[...] Both racial problems and religious dissension will be rationalized from the standpoint of these beliefs. [...] They may say that since an individual chose his or her problems in this life — deciding for instance to be born black, or poor, or both — that karma is being worked out; therefore such issues should not be adjusted through a change of law or custom. [...]

Individuals feeling this way will be very uncomfortable when they mingle with others of a different race, creed or color, and despite themselves may be revengefully conservative in dealing, for example, with problems of a community nature. [...]

[...] Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. [...]

[...] You believed that together you could achieve what had not been achieved earlier — that you could somehow or other offer meaningful and real solutions to the world’s problems…. [...]

[...] Since they have no idea that they themselves caused the problem to begin with, then they do not realize that they themselves possess the power to right the situation. [...]

[...] And if there is a problem at school, we can work it out together, so you don’t have to make yourself ill.” [...]

It is not one of my problems. [...]

[...] What about us who have the problem. [...]

[...] However, since I have nowhere made any statement on such a weighty problem, I shall here do so for the statements are needed regardless of humor. [...]

[...] However, you will use war as an instrument, [a] way of solving your population problem, if you will not have sense to control it otherwise. [...]

(Pause at 10:19.) As racial problems may be worked out on many levels, through a riot or a natural disaster, or a combination of both, according to the intensity of the situation on a psychological level; and as physical symptoms can be pleas for help and recognition, so can natural misfortunes be utilized by members of one portion of the country, or one part of the world, to obtain aid from other portions.

To one extent or another, these same problems existed in all areas (of the East Coast) that were directly involved with that particular flood.

[...] It was an attempt on the part of fundamental denominations to solve the problems at another level, through an influx of religious identification, conversion, and enthusiasm.

The flood therefore physically materialized the inner problems of the region, and at the same time released energies that had been trapped in hopelessness.

There are comprehensions, illuminations, that cannot be verbalized, that arise as a result of illuminations solving problems that on the one hand seem to have nothing to do with the problems. These however are fulfillments quite unpredictable, that come about as you solve what appears to be one main problem. They are achievements that arise out of a given situation, often even while in your terms the given problem may not seem solved.