“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you can afford the token recognition. You cannot afford to deny them token recognition. They are not by any means overdemanding elements in either of your personalities. Your weekend encounters have been an improvement here. The spirit behind the indulgence is important.

The plan evolved as to dinners and outings was only adopted by Ruburt as an emergency measure, but in your particular circumstances a modified version of this plan would serve as a steady and constant safety measure. If certain portions, dominating portions, of both of your personalities are willing to go without, for the sake of what you want, other portions do feel that they are being disregarded, without even token recognition.

You have decided to acknowledge such needs, and to give them token satisfaction, so you have recognized that cavity, which in the past you both tried your best to ignore. [...]

[...] The gist of tonight’s material on this subject was that Bill allowed his intuitions enough freedom so that he was able to see the apparition for over an hour and to make several drawings of it; by the same token Jane and I were unable to see the apparition because we tried to intellectualize it. [...]

[...] By the same token, you are what you are because of the existence of what you are not.

(By the same token, I try to keep Seth’s material in mind concerning her own challenges and problems, and this has helped enormously. [...]

[...] By the same token, if our individual chose to perceive and experience, say, event Y, then event Y would be the reality, and event X would still be unreal.

[...] By the same token I will not be coerced, ever, into giving a session.

[...] He must make token efforts, therefore, to break away—efforts that must be futile, because if they worked he would be in the “real world.”

[...] By the same token, your triumph represented a necessary one, and reinforced the healthy points of your present ego.

[...] Remember that they did exist … by the same token your triumph reinforced the healthy aspects of your present egos.”

The last episode, around the corner (on Grove Street, in a flooded area) did not apply, it was a token gesture. [...]

“Our priests,” he mused, “have spoken
of Man Who made our pond.
Perhaps He left this as a token,
Between us, to be a bond.”

[...] By the same token, there is no reason to suppose the reincarnational material was any less correct, though we can’t check it because of the long time periods involved. [...]