“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In physical life, you cannot take your entire entity with you—only the part of it that you call yourself. [...]

Now: when you are painting a picture and you have a good start, you do not think to yourself “I have a good start, but I will most likely ruin what I have begun.” [...]

There is a spontaneity there that you allowed yourself, and it is significant.

You are close to releasing yourself in a particular way through your painting, through your work, and you will find this way intuitively. [...]

[...] From it you form your own ideas of significance and of yourself … You must stop thinking in terms of ordinary progression. [...]

If you understood to begin with that you are a spirit, and therefore free of space and time yourself, then you could at least consider the possibility that some such messages were coming to you from other portions of your own reality. [...]

[...] You switched yourself off automatically because the experience frightened you, but the whole affair was beneficial since it gave you some first-hand experience with pure inner sensory data. [...]

[...] You can train yourself in the recognition of such data, its utilization and control. [...]

[...] If you had helped tonight, you would not have felt the need to turn your emotions inward against yourself in such a self-destructive manner.’”

You might feel like applying yourself to “Unknown” Reality, and you might feel like writing steadily for many hours. [...] I am aware of your difficulties with time, practically, and yet freeing yourself of the ideas of work as you have begun to do lately with “Unknown” frees your creativity, and you concentrate better and more clearly. [...]

[...] As I am joined in a psychic merger with you now, and am still myself, and you yourself.

[...] Because you cannot put your finger upon him does not mean that he does not exist, and that he has not helped you fulfill yourself, and that he has not helped teach the woman you know as your mother.

[...] Other portions should explain your own ideas concerning creativity as you feel it in yourself — the differences and similarities between your experience when you paint a picture from “usual” inspiration and when first of all you perceive the psychic impression that leads to a painting. [...]

[...] You will learn from such a meeting in any case, and you have set yourself already to go.

I will help you rely upon yourself to better advantage, but I will not make your decisions for you, nor allow you to use me, in that respect. [...]

[...] Much of your own energy has been used in the situation involving yourself and Ruburt and your joint problems. [...]

[...] It is not good to imagine yourself ill, but it is not good to condemn the person who is ill, for that reason.

[...] You have not been able to let yourself go fully in them, as Ruburt has not been able to go freely with his body.

[...] You set yourself against your feelings, allowing them release in certain areas only under certain conditions, and in largely impersonal as opposed to intimate areas.

[...] As what you are now is a translation of yourself in terms that you can understand. [...]

[...] If you feel, however, as if you would like to do it, but do not have the guts to do it, then trust yourself and go ahead. [...]

In many cases your scientists seem to have the strange idea that you can understand a reality by destroying it; that you can perceive the life mechanism of an animal by killing it; or that you can examine a phenomenon best by separating yourself from it. [...] By this I mean that each such attempt puts you more out of context, so to speak, with yourself and your environment, and other species. [...]

This involves a recognition of yourself as distinct from the flesh fibers in which you reside. [...] This motion may be from side to side as you gently shake yourself loose.

[...] Will yourself out in a quick motion. [...]

[...] This represents a definite increase in the scope of consciousness and a considerable expansion over the usual limitations set by you upon yourself.

[...] You should give yourself the suggestions that I mentioned earlier, consistently. [...]

[...] Another portion of yourself therefore is concerned here, and a portion with which you are not ordinarily familiar.

My heartiest wishes to you both, and I hope, Joseph, that you make a habit of giving yourself the suggestion which I advised. [...]

[...] In the dream state you might find yourself sleeping on a sunwarmed rock, or climbing on icy ones. You might feel yourself encased in a rock, with your consciousness dispersed. [...]

[...] It may escape you, however, that the objects with which you surround yourself in physical life also have symbolic meanings — only these are three-dimensional. [...]

You have been doing much better in relating yourself with your parents. [...]

[...] In your relationship with your parents for example, such a psychic expansion of self would allow you to absorb your own awareness of their sometimes painful existence, and you would feel no wound yourself.

[...] This development is not an easy one, nor can it be rushed, nor can you expect it of yourself.

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]

[...] Remind yourself that you can indeed easily be aware of such situations while you are “sleeping.”

[...] ) You wear a cloak (gesturing ) to protect yourself while flying in the cold night air.

To one extent or another in your society you are taught not to trust yourself. [...]