“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is important, however, that you do not strain too hard to achieve results, but allow yourself some leeway. You react to your beliefs habitually, often unthinkingly, and in usual ideas of time, and in your experience of it — you must allow yourself “some time” to change that habitual behavior.

[...] I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, rearousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. [...]

As you do, you will discover yourself reacting to the desired beliefs as easily and automatically as you did to the undesirable ones. [...]

[...] Now you set these challenges for yourself in a so-called past life. [...]

[...] If you do not like your experience, then look within yourself and change it. [...]

[...] It is only you who are presently aware of but one portion of it; and this portion you insist upon calling yourself. [...]

[...] It would be ridiculous for you to choose to do this, and then say to yourself, “Why did I choose to work in the slums? [...]

[...] You are much easier now, but at the time, there was an explosion of energy on your part that you did not understand, and you were afraid that in this explosion of energy you would go too far outward and there would be nothing left, so to speak, that you would get away from yourself and lose yourself beyond all hopes of recovery. [...]

Now regardless of what you may think, consciously, the hypnosis experiments did, indeed, upset you, and part of you regarded them as coercion and this you highly resented so that you sent a part of yourself where the other part of yourself did not want to go. [...]

[...] And, therefore, you could not trust yourself and found yourself unable to continue. [...]

You answer the question as you understand it, and that is a part of the game and also a part of the illumination that I hope you discover as you find yourself facing both parts of that question. [...]

[...] I am not asking you to relate to the word life, but to life itself and to do this you must experience the life within yourself and feel it. [...]

(To Ned.) Though we had an honest answer from someone over here in the corner, I would still like a more adventurous spirit so when you ask yourselves the questions during the week then allow yourself, my dear friend, to feel the uniqueness and the integrity of your own personality as you now know it and realize that there is none like it, in this universe or any other. [...]

[...] It is merely a physical symptom that you use to let yourself know that something can happen. [...]

It is as if your present situation and all its physical phenomena were projected from within yourself outward, giving you a continuous running motion picture, forcing you to perceive only those images that were being transposed. These seem so real that you find yourself in the position of reacting to them constantly.

[...] As a preliminary to the methods I will give later, it is a good idea to ask yourself now and then: “What am I actually conscious of at this time?” Do this when your eyes open, and again when they are closed.

[...] There are molecular structures in every inch of empty space, but you have taught yourself not to perceive them. [...]

[...] In ordinary living, you often imagine yourself behaving in a different manner than you did, or in your mind reexperiencing events in order to gain greater understanding from them. [...]

[...] For now we are taking into consideration the fact that, generally speaking, you are not going to make yourself five physical feet taller if you are a grown adult already, because there are certain physical laws with which you must contend. [...]

Now: Dictation: You constantly give yourself suggestions about your body, your health or ill health. [...]

It does not matter in which language you are addressing yourself, for example. [...]

[...] When you say, “I am tired,” mentally you are not only giving silent messages to yourself — I say messages rather than message because the general statement is broken down; many portions of the body must be affected before you feel tired — but beside this the inner sound value of the messages automatically affects the body in just that way.

[...] To the extent that you do not know yourself, you do not know your world. To the extent that you do not know yourself, you do not know your husband, or wife, or mother and father. To the extent that you do not know yourself, you do not know what God is. To the extent that you do not know yourself, you do not know what nature is. [...]

[...] As always, I say that the answers lie within yourself, not in the exterior world.

[...] In this book I am purposely trying to lead you into a larger, more expansive way of looking at yourself and the world in which you live.

[...] You used, literally, a half of your energy repressing these memories and ideas building up a bridge between yourself and the rest of the world in terror that they should discover this secret, and so constructively you could not use this energy. [...]

[...] To yourself, to the group. [...]

[...] But do not question yourself out of feeling or emotion and do not build up a barrier in your own mind for there are no barriers here. [...]

[...] And so do we observe and does yourself serve as a translator in our behalf. [...]

[...] You would not force yourself to work on those occasions, for your natural need for play of some kind —outings or guests—would then assert themselves. [...]

[...] On the other hand, you often work when you do not feel like it, but need other refreshment, simply because of course you have already tired yourself through the ensuing dilemmas.

[...] It is silly, however, in the same way to force yourself to concentrate at a time when you really yearn for activity. [...]

It means trusting yourself, following your own rhythms, riding the thrust, the aggressive and joyful thrust of your creativity full blast, so to speak. [...]

Give us a moment … Whether or not you remember your dreams, you are educating yourself as they happen. You may suddenly “awaken” while still within the dream state, however, and recognize the drama that you have yourself created. [...] You may then find yourself facing an empty stage, become momentarily disoriented at the sudden lack of activity, and promptly begin to form another dream play more to your liking.

The fact is that the basic nature of reality shows itself in the nature of the dream state quite clearly, where in any given night you may find yourself undertaking many roles simultaneously. You may change sex, social position, national or religious alliance, age, and yet know yourself as yourself.

When you find yourself within a dream, tell yourself you will know what happened before you entered it, and the past will grow outward from that moment. [...]

[...] In waking life, if you want to disconnect yourself from an event or place, you try to move away from it in space. [...]

[...] When you look up and recognize, you will accept that which you do not now recognize as yourself, as yourself. [...] The voice that does not “speak" in your terms is yours, but the instructor is not yourself as you know yourself. [...]

It would, as long as you realized that the self you are as you know yourself now does not run the seminar. [...]

[...] In your search you must contact that whole portion of yourself toward which you are growing—toward which I hope you are growing. [...]

[...] You must discover this for yourself.

(11:51.) You have had in the past to some extent a disdain, because of your beliefs about yourself, for people perhaps met on the streets during business or working hours, or for people who did not have jobs, or who did not punch a time clock or whatever, and it is by those attitudes that you judge yourself (intently), and find yourself wanting in the eyes, say, of your brothers. [...]

[...] You must liberate yourself whenever such thoughts arise to mind—not by inhibiting them but by confronting them, recognizing their origins, and realizing that you have left them intellectually behind, resolving that you will emotionally free yourself from their effects. [...]

[...] I do not want to overemphasize this point, so do not overemphasize it yourself—but the idea is that you sometimes become angry at your own “unconscious creative abilities.” [...] You think, then, that if you were not so creative you could have a proper niche for yourself, and therefore you tense a portion of the body that seems to be connected to the unconscious side of the self, and chose the groin, which connects old beliefs about males to the beliefs about creativity. [...]

[...] These ideas to some extent even inhibit natural plans rising in your mind, notes of your own that would automatically lead to a book of your own—because you pursue yourself. [...]

Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. [...] Your feeling-tones are your emotional attitudes toward yourself and life in general, and these generally govern the large areas of experience.

It is the essence of yourself. [...] It is the feeling of yourself, inexhaustible.

[...] It might help if you imagine an inner living dimension within yourself in which you create, in miniature psychic form, all the exterior conditions that you know. [...]

In other terms it represents the expression of yourself in pure energy, from which your individuality rises, the You of you, unmistakably given identity that is never duplicated.

If you tell yourself that sexual feeling is wrong, and organize your daily programming in that fashion, then when you “meditate,” or dispense with that orientation, you may suddenly find yourself presented with material that you consider unsavory. [...] When you begin to alter your perception, then, and your habitual picture of reality drops away, you may well find yourself encountering in distorted fashion elements of your own reality that you have up to then studiously denied or ignored.

[...] If you find yourself being more concerned with one particular perception, then make an attempt to bring the ignored ones to the same clear focus. [...]

When you have done this often enough so that you are intimately aware of the contrast, you will have a subjective feeling, a point of knowing within yourself, that will clearly indicate to you how your consciousness feels when it is at its finest point of focus in physical reality.

[...] In this way you are still directing it and learning to orient yourself. [...]

(Pause.) In a strange fashion in your life to date, you managed to think of yourself apart from your age. You did not think of yourself as an adolescent when you were one, for example, so follow that fine good sense now. [...]

[...] It is a matter of understanding the process—not of blaming yourself for reactions you do not approve of. [...]

[...] Understanding that, you see, can really give you greater leeway, for while you might still recognize such beliefs in yourself at times, you will also be able to recognize their source—and by doing so automatically confound them. [...]

[...] Returning yourself to the present moment, and responding only to what is within your present environment, returns your body to a state of stability, where it is not crowded by imaginary fears of the future. [...]

When you have completed a life then it is as if you have finished a living portrait of yourself, using the mediums of space and time. [...]

Now there are progressions, so to speak, of understanding, and when you reach the level currently experienced by yourself and Ruburt, then you will be driven because of the seeming conflict into the kind of synthesis that I have just spoken of allegorically. [...]

You cannot say to yourself twenty times a day “There is no peace,’’ and at the same time expect to find some, with any possibility of achieving anything but conflict. [...]

Now: Affirmation means saying “yes” to yourself and to the life you lead, and to accepting your own unique personhood.

[...] Your affirmation of yourself is one of your greatest strengths. [...]

[...] In a way you set up antibodies against yourself, simply because you do not confirm the rightness of your physical being as it exists in space and time.

[...] All you have to do is realize that within yourself is the ability to face each life, each day as a life, as you come to it. [...]

[...] Imagine yourself answering questions that have been put to you. [...]

(To Sue.) And you must learn also that love is noisy and can be a bother and can get in the way, and you must learn not to deny the validity of your own feelings in those directions where you are now tending to hide them from yourself. [...]

[...] Now you are having many experiences now that are vital to you in the dream state, and I want you to tell yourself that it is easy to remember them. [...]

[...] You could not have made the same points to yourself as well had the image been male, because of the beliefs that are ingrained in you. The portrait does represent then a portion of yourself—and a portion that understands you quite well, and took that form for your edification.

[...] The woman is alone, with many empty rooms behind her, signifying that you set yourself apart from the many worlds of commerce in your day—meaning social commerce—and that such an understanding can also bring loneliness. [...]

[...] When the dream gives you such an image, and the image becomes objectified, then you are of course showing a new part of yourself in the physical world, and bringing into expression through your physical hands the emotions that otherwise could not be expressed.

[...] You are told not to make decisions, and to give yourself completely to the system of the cult.

Then you should ask yourself why you did it. And if you quit telling yourself that you do not know why you did it, then you would know what you already knew, why you did it. [...]

My dear cousin of Richelieu, you give yourself a report card that I would never give you. You are much harder on yourself than I would ever be. [...]

Do it some more and let yourself go when you are doing it and don’t ask questions. [...] Let yourself go with it. [...]