“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The bones that you call your own will lie a long time in the grave. The physical beings of those that you know change even as I speak. What joy and creativity you can give, then give. What affirmation you can speak, speak. This life is as important as any other life, and none of you attempt to deny the abilities of another for in doing this you speak against creativity. Therefore, it behooves all of you, on a part of all that you are, to expect the best of yourselves and the best of those with whom you are in contact. But the moment is intimate and the voice that speaks beside you in the night, in your terms, will not speak for long, therefore, comfort it when you can. And remember, all of you, again, I am not speaking in terms of self-sacrifice. It is impossible to sacrifice the self, and when you try to do this, it is betrayal. This is not divorced from the material I have been giving you in terms of evolution or the nature of reality but highly intertwined. You live and breathe these concepts.

Now the atoms and molecules that compose you are glorious impermanent things, and through the leadership of your consciousness have you led them to consciousness and song and through you do they experience what you experience. And through your organization do they understand realities that would otherwise be denied them. And when each of you come together in a personal relationship are you then glorifying and adding to the reality of the consciousness that is within those atoms and molecules. You know each other in each life a brief time. What joy and comfort you can give, then give. What support you can render, render. Do you not realize that by doing this you become more than you think you are? And I am not speaking to any of you in terms of self-sacrifice for there is no such thing, and there is no such road, and I do not advocate it. But if you demand the best that is within you then you become more than you realize that you are, and you must also demand more from the other persons within your relationship. Allof you, therefore, that are married and have such relationships must inspire each other regardless of what you all know of the nature of reality.

But also that you should not attempt self-sacrifice. It should not be expected of you. You should not accept it.

([Mark:] “Then if you have a responsibility it should be an opportunity to develop yourself, not a self-sacrifice?”)

(9:40.) Regardless of what you have been told, there is no merit in self-sacrifice. [...] Usually, self-sacrifice means throwing the “burden” of yourself upon someone else and making it their responsibility.

Nor was the idea of self-sacrifice then involved. [...] God did not sacrifice his dearly beloved son by allowing that son to be physical. [...]

Love does not demand sacrifice. [...]

[...] This excessive dependence can be done away with eventually, but at considerable sacrifice. Jane and I are more than ready to make those sacrifices; indeed, we live very conservatively even now. [...]

[...] The sacrifice of, say, thousands of lives in a nuclear accident almost becomes justified in their minds if it is a means toward the grandiose goal of learning how to ‘triumph over nature.’ Again, this intent automatically turns them into mechanics.

[...] It is ringed in by trees and the historical and psychic connections there are not good, having to do with sacrifices. [...]

The Monchuco were here and worshipped a half- bull, half-woman deity and the bull was a black one and sacrifices were thrown into the sea. [...]

[...] It is ringed in by trees and the historical and psychic connections here are not good, having to do with sacrifices. [...]

The Monchuco were here and worshiped a half bull, half woman deity and the bull was a black one and sacrifices were thrown into the sea. [...]

[...] In the same manner, say, the ideal is to protect human life, and in the pursuit of that ideal you give generations of various animals deadly diseases, and sacrifice their lives.³ Your justification may be that people have souls and animals do not, or that the quality of life is less in the animals, but regardless of those arguments this is fanaticism — and the quality of human life itself suffers as a result, for those who sacrifice any kind of life along the way lose some respect for all life, human life included. [...]

[...] They are the most self-righteous of the self-righteous, and they will sacrifice almost anything — their own lives or the lives of others. [...]

[...] Some may even cause themselves to have severe accidents, in which they sacrifice portions of their bodies to retain a sense of —

All of this, of course, applies to Ruburt’s situation — for once, indeed, he willed himself into immobility, willing to sacrifice certain kinds of motion in order to safely use other kinds of psychological motion, because he was afraid of his spontaneous nature, or his spontaneous self.

He interpreted what you said at times to mean “You are ungrateful for my sacrifice,” but he did not think the sacrifice in those terms was necessary after the first years, and that such sacrifice could destroy your ability, your fine purpose.

[...] He wanted you to state your position, and say “I am an artist” to her and to the world, but he deeply feared that you considered that attitude irresponsible, frivolous, not practical; and worse, that you felt it negated the sacrifice you made by keeping the job for so long. [...]

[...] But I said, “No, you can’t save a part of her (and sacrifice part) you have to save the poetry too.” [...]

[...] They are often responsible for needless sacrifices of physical organs in imprudent operations.

Because of the fact that bad weather has often saved man from wars in the very early stages of human development, man misconstrued this to mean that sacrifice to the elements could save him from calamities of this kind. Sacrifice has nothing to do with it. [...]

[...] The play in which your friend performed represented the springboard for the inner portrayal, unfortunately, of sacrifice. [...]

He felt when or if he spoke of this you were deeply hurt, thinking he did not understand your sacrifice—the job, but he did not want your sacrifice. [...]

He appreciated the time you gave him, but he did not want the sacrifice of yourself. [...]

(“I’d sacrifice every cent we’ve got if it would get us that,” I said, “because then we’d both be free. I’d sacrifice this house and live in a cheap apartment on Water Street again, if it would help, and we just had royalty money to live on.” [...]

[...] It is the one portion of your body, the mouth, that you have so far been willing to “sacrifice” to old mass beliefs.

[...] The most educated Western doctors will look with utter dismay and horror at the thought of a chicken being sacrificed in a primitive witch doctor’s hut, and yet will consider it quite scientific and inevitable that a woman sacrifice two breasts to cancer. [...]

[...] The patient is sometimes compelled to sacrifice one organ after another to his beliefs, and to the doctor’s.

[...] It does mean that he cannot sacrifice himself to one portion of himself, or he will lose even that portion.

[...] For the sacrifices unconsciously asked by the father, the father regrets, and the sacrifices made by the son, the son regrets.

While Ruburt felt he was doing the right thing, he would put up with almost any inconvenience, or make almost any sacrifice. He must understand that no sacrifice is ever required.

[...] And in that life you learned the meaning of love, and the false necessity of sacrifice. [...]

[...] No sacrifices need be offered as a proof of (words lost).  You can save them for later. [...]