“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The inner self or the whole personality consists of many such egos, as you know, but the inner self is also aware of itself as something more than the sum of its parts. Now this something more than the sum of its parts is a curious phrase, but within it lies a key that can give you some small understanding of what God may be.

While there is a portion of All That Is, that is aware of itself as you, for example, a portion that is indeed focused within your existence, whose energy is directed within you, and to whom you can call for help when necessary, there is also an overall god-personality that is aware of itself also as something that is more than the sum of its creations. This is All That Is, in the deepest sense.

Again, the term God is used simply because it is an accepted term for the reality we are discussing. That which knows itself, which experiences itself within many forms and yet knows itself as something apart from the total of its sums, that left-over, unexplainable remnant you see, can be thought of as original action, original consciousness, prime mover, or consciousness as distinct from its own creations, of which it is also part.

(“Frank Watts, what do you think of the sum of your previous existences here on earth?”)

Pun: The whole is the sum of its hearts, ha.

[...] Joseph is your whole self more or less, the image of the sum of your various personalities in the past and in the future.

[...] What you call God is the sum of all consciousness and yet the whole is more than the sum of its parts. God is more than the sum of all personalities, and yet all personalities is what He is. [...]

[...] You must remember that the whole self is more than the sum of its parts; and also, since it is action, it is never the same. [...] Therefore the whole self is not only the sum of the personality as you know it in your time, it is also the sum of what it has been and what it shall be. [...]

[...] The sum total of it was far from flattering to me. [...]

In other words the whole in almost any case is more than the sum of its parts. [...]

E-x-t-r-a-l value, that is, a value greater than the sum of its individual parts.

[...] When the whole physical body is constructed, the individual personality-consciousness is again more than the sum of its component parts.

If you believe otherwise, then you are limited; your environment then represents the sum total of knowledge and experience. [...]

All That Is is more than the sum of its parts. [...]

Reality is indeed not necessarily that which is constant within the various appearances of reality through all systems, as it is the perception of the whole picture of reality, or the sum of all reality as seen within the various systems. [...] It would not be that which appears identical to the two systems, but it would be indeed the sum of the realities of all systems, as applied to our weary automobile.

Right now I see you symbolically speaking, in your terms, as the sum of the various people I have known in past lives as you, plus the you that is present, in your terms. [...]

[...] At death you will consciously realize the sum of your reincarnated selves. [...]

Except that God is always more than All That Is, is the sum that you cannot find and for my definition of God I, therefore, leave you with that one for God is the sum that you cannot find, that resides within you, that is more than anything you can discover, that is his creations and yet more than that which is created within; whom infinities rest. [...]

But more than the sum. [...]

You cannot say that your ancestors, like some strange plants, were growing toward what you are, or that you are the sum of their experiences. [...] You cannot say that you are the sum of your past reincarnational lives either, and for the same reasons. [...]

[...] What you call God is the sum of all consciousness, and yet the whole is more than the sum of Its parts. God is more than the sum of all personalities, and yet all personalities are what He is.

[...] After all this time you still do not personally accept the fact that you are, in your terms at this moment, the sum of your own thoughts and emotions about yourselves and that whatever you want to fix you can fix, and that whatever you want to change you can change. [...]

(That little exchange pretty much sums up our attitudes these days, and Jane’s worsening physical condition. [...]

[...] The answer is that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. [...]

[...] He is in a strange position, in that he is an overall self, composed in part of the sum of these other selves, and yet more than the sum.

[...] It is the whole I, and yet more than the sum of its parts. [...]

[...] Ruburt is the sum (smile) of the present ... [...] Ruburt is the sum of the earthly personalities, intimately aware of all past lives.

[...] The sum of all should be excellent consciousness. [...]

[...] I think, and as Seth agreed, that the dream means far more than sums of money received alone. [...]