“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Although I’m not bothered much now, in earlier years I suffered with it extensively. [...]

[...] The sessions and any work resulting from them will never detract from your painting, although upon occasion it may appear that you suffer timewise. [...]

[...] A little suffering in life—okay, I thought, considering the session last night—but this? [...]

[...] He is not suffering from psychic fatigue. [...]

[...] The only thing that’s suffered has been work on Mass Events, but now I’m gradually moving back into that endeavor also.

[...] There were a few good points here thrown in (humorously) of general interest, regarding the interpretation of suffering. [...]

[...] If this were severely tampered with, the ego itself would suffer. [...]

[...] Individual development suffered in many ways. [...]

You end up with the casting-out of devils, which can be of great benefit, incidentally, if (underlined) the sufferer happens to believe (underlined) he is possessed by one.

[...] I am not saying, in other words, that suffering necessarily leads to spiritual fulfillment, nor that all illness is accepted or chosen for such a purpose, for this is not the case.

[...] And while in the Jewish books [of The Old Testament] Jehovah now and then came through with great majesty to save his chosen people, he also allowed them to suffer great indignities over long periods of time, seeming to save them only at the last moment — and this time, so it seemed, he did not save them at all. [...]

[...] At physical death his personality then exists in its complete form, and of course escapes the sort of ending that it would suffer if it were an integral part of the physical system.

[...] Through all of man’s religions and philosophies that line of thought has been most prominent; those who had the most energy suffered from it the most, of course. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s body suffered whether or not he intended it to, because value fulfillment was being further denied. [...]

[...] For his refusal to pursue the examination of such forces, mankind suffers greatly the results of his own ignorance.

[...] Again here you see, however, that it is the individual himself who initiates his own emotional climate, and then suffers or enjoys the results.

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.

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

[...] In larger terms, however, each individual suffers whenever identity is defined primarily as a matter of sexual orientation.

People felt depersonalized beneath labels, so that they were told: “Oh, yes, you are a victim of ulcers, or anxiety attacks, or whatever,” while the very personal suffering portion of their beings was ignored. [...]