“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

His mother chose a reality that seems incredibly tragic and painful from the outside looking in. In certain terms it was tragic and painful but it was not Ruburt’s fault, and within it his mother achieved a different kind of knowledge and even triumphant experience.

Yet, I read all of those dire newspaper stories predicting disaster, and (oh yes, dear readers) I watched the daily tragic news events dramatized in living color on our television screen. [...]

(Long pause at 7:51.) It began to strike me that even my own physical incapacities were indeed creative ventures that appeared in my experience as bad, or limiting, or even tragic. [...]

[...] I could say: “Music is triumphant,” or “Music is tragic.” [...]

(All very intent, leaning forward, eyes wide and dark:) In some manner, even a tragic composition of merit transcends tragedy itself. [...]

[...] Yet those tragic lives are used as a focus point that actually brings into experience, through comparison, the great vitality and thrust of being.

(Still in the same intense manner:) This does not mean that a tragic life is more vital than a happy, simple one. [...]

It would have been a mistake of the most tragic order, however, to shy away from the full development of abilities. [...]

[...] I do not see any tragic circumstances surrounding the sister of Ruburt’s student (Shirley Bickford), of the kind told to Ruburt. [...]

[...] You are throwing out, to some extent, now, much of the accumulated nonsense of the centuries (emphatically), upon which people have often tragically built their lives and cultures. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self was taught to distrust its own nature and expression, believing that that nature, by virtue of original sin, was flawed—but in a tragic fashion—literally damned by God, of course, because of the sins of the forefathers. [...]

[...] I thought it a classic example that could be explained in Seth’s terms, though—the type of new information that at least could try to make sense out of such seemingly random happenings that we see as so tragic. [...]

[...] It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

[...] After the session I told Jane I’d been tempted to ask Seth to comment on the tragic situation involving Venice and Howard McCullough, but decided not to because of Jane’s own concerns. [...]

[...] A sudden but intense feeling of hatred or resentment or fear may cause tragic physical circumstances, for example. [...]

[...] The young woman you did not know is in severe difficulty, and unless her method of operation changes, there will be tragic circumstances, indeed. [...]

[...] Now though it seems to you perhaps at this point tragic, the facts are that the real tragedy would have occurred had the cat lived, in your terms, and had you curled up in it, in your house on the corner, and turned your love inward to the animal rather than outward, for there are people who need it. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

He went on to say that the name of the original Italian town was something like Ventura, was located in southeastern Italy, and that a tragic train wreck occurred in the area just after the 1930’s.

Seth went on to say that even in such apparently tragic conditions, the personality is not abandoned. [...]

[...] I remember his last years were tragic ones; he killed a woman while driving, and became an alcoholic. [...]

Highly unstable explosive energy may lead you to a tragic war. [...]

[...] They imagine tragic roles with as much creative abandon as they imagine roles of which adults might approve. [...]

[...] I couldn’t understand why she wasn’t calling upon her creative powers to her help out of the tragic situation she’s created for herself, and me. [...]

[...] You look about to see how your contemporaries are getting along with their portraits, and you find multitudinous varieties: tragic self-portraits, heroic self-portraits, comic self-portraits. [...]

His beliefs about poets were contaminated by ideas that said that the poet was too sensitive, too vulnerable to life’s experiences — that this sensitivity brought weakness instead of strength, and that true artists or true poets came to a tragic end for that reason.

[...] The exteriorized consciousness will always see such an event as an earthquake by viewing only its immediate, sometimes tragic, results. [...]

[...] Many of the traditions do come from the Greeks, from the great Greek play-writers, who quite beautifully and tragically presented the quality of the psyche as it showed itself in the light of Grecian traditions.