Jane Roberts Quotes (288 quotes, page 2)

“Full use of the inner senses is not even for me yet.”

Jane Roberts

Session 35, Page 279
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Sense

“I told you once that in those terms I would be considered as Ruburt's number 6 or 7 self. You had better change Ruburt to Jane in that sentence. Ruburt then, would be considered Jane's third self in approximate terms. In the analogy these future selves would dwell in other dimensions, and usually self one, or Jane, would be relatively unaware of their, existence or knowledge. In this case self one is able to make such contacts however.”

Jane Roberts

Session 444, Page 124
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9

Knowledge , Change , Future

“Beyond that, however, genetic messages are coded in such a way that there is a constant give-and-take between those messages and the present experience of any given individual. That is, no genetic event is inevitable.”

Jane Roberts

Session 907, Page 271
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)

Way

“The eye projects and focuses the inner image (idea) onto the physical world in the same manner that a motion picture camera transfers an image onto a screen. The mouth creates words. The ears create sound. The difficulty in understanding this principle is due to the fact that we’ve taken it for granted that the image and sound already exist for the senses to interpret. Actually the senses are the channels of creation by which idea is projected into material expression.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 13

World , Idea , Understanding , Sense

“I have mentioned that any action has an electromagnetic reality. In telepathic and clairvoyant experiences, the electromagnetic pattern is transmitted. It must then be transformed into a pattern that can be distinguished by the ego, if the individual is to be consciously aware of the data. Often the information that is picked up translated by the subconscious and acted upon without conscious approval or recognition. In almost all cases, however, there must be an emotional attraction, for this is what allows for the initial transmission, and makes it possible.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 272, quoting from Session 197

Reality

“There are lost portions of the Bible having to do with sexuality, and with Christ’s beliefs concerning it, that were considered blasphemous and did not come down to you through history.”

Jane Roberts

Session 771, Page 75
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

History , Christ

“Each individual of whatever species, and each consciousness, whatever its degree, automatically seeks to enhance the quality of life itself - not only for itself but for all of reality as well.”

Jane Roberts

Session 893, Page 194
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)

Life , Reality

“Cordellas are invisible symbols that surface. As they do, they show the universe in a new light by the very nature of their relationships. In a very limited fashion, alphabets do the same thing, for once you have accepted certain basic verbal symbols they impose their discipline even upon your thoughts… and throw their particular light upon the reality you perceive. Alphabets are nevertheless tools that shape and direct perception. They are groups of relationships that you transpose upon "reality". To this extent they shape your conceptions of the world that you know. Their discipline and rigidity is considerable. Once you think of a "tree" as a tree, it takes great effort before you can see it freshly again, as a living individual entity. Cordellas do not have the same rigidity. Inner invisible relationships are allowed to rise, [with] the acknowledgment recognized reality viewed through the lenses of these emerging relationships.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), p. 100

World , Fashion , Nature , Thinking

“Yet we are natural god-makers, a fact that certainly should be taken into consideration by our psychologies. In fact, our god-making tendencies characterize us. Throughout history, we've consistently formed these mental models of godly beings, who then, through visions and revelations, make their messages clear to the conscious mind, laying down the rules for our civilizations, structuring our institutions and directing our military establishments also, whatever their sophistication, or lack of it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 216

God , History , Nature

“Each unit of consciousness inherently possesses within itself all of the information available to the whole, and its specific nature when it operated as a particle rests upon that great body of inner knowledge.”

Jane Roberts

Session 890, Page 176
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)

Nature , Knowledge

“Within your system, to kill is obviously a moral crime, but to kill another in punishment only compounds the original error. Someone very well known who established a church -- if you will, a civilization -- once said, "Turn the other cheek if you are attacked." The original meaning of that remark, however, should be understood. You should turn the other cheek because you realize that basically the attacker only attacks himself. Then you are free, and the reaction is a good one. If you turn the other cheek without this understanding, however, and feel resentful, or if you turn the other cheek out of a feeling of pseudomoral superiority, then the reaction is far from adequate.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth Speaks (1972), p. 171

Error , Feeling , Understanding

“I saw us as coming from a source self, free of space and time, into this reality. The focus personality (or the self we know) focuses in this life, but is also composed of of other Aspects or parts of the source self that are latent within the psyche, though "alive" in other realities. These form the basic structure of the psyche from which the focus personality emerges. I call these "prime Aspects." A harmonious working relationship between these prime Aspects results in a well-balanced focus personality -- one that is reasonably happy, healthy, and creative.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 197

Life , Reality , Time , Parting

“I may say that Buddhism does indeed come closer in essence to reality than other religions. However, the Buddhist either have not gone far enough, or have gone too far, according to your viewpoint. If they have gone too far, then they have been so concerned with inner reality that they have become too tolerant of physical disease and disasters. If they have no gone far enough, then they have not followed through sufficiently so that these physical disasters could truly be suffered without pain.”

Jane Roberts

Session 191
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 4

Pain , Disease , Religion , Reality

“Free will as I mentioned earlier certainly does operate, but you must remember that while it does operate, personalities on your plane are extremely limited as to choice. They can only choose to operate within their own camouflage pattern framework.”

Jane Roberts

Session 36, Page 284
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Personality

“Again, your being is never annihilated, but continues to develop its own existence in other ways. A portion of you has lived many lives upon this planet, but the "you" that you know is freshly here, and will never again encounter space and time in precisely the same way. The same applies to each life lived either before or after. Biologically you rest upon a heritage, however, and psychically the same applies. The soul, or this greater personage, does not simply send out an old self in new clothes time and time again, but each time a new, freshly-minted self that then develops and goes its own way. That self rides firmly, however, in the great flight of experience, and feels within itself all of those other fully unique versions that also fling their way into existence.”

Jane Roberts

Session 724, p. 492
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Life , Way , Feeling , Soul

“The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals -- when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The “Unknown” Reality: Volume One, (1977), p. 689; Session 689

Men , Behavior , Communication , Knowledge

“Physically, however, the body is quite able to completely regenerate itself as it approaches old age. Indeed, a quite legitimate second puberty is possible, in which the male’s seed is youthfully strong and vital, and the woman’s womb is pliable and able to bear... Now, to some extent there is a connection between this innate, rarely observed second puberty and the development of cancer, in which growth is specifically apparent in an exaggerated manner.”

Jane Roberts

Session 770, Page 66
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

Age , Strong

“As a rule, each entity is born so that he experiences at least three roles, that of mother, father and child... Beside the three necessary roles there is another quality, different in dimension, which is also necessary for the personality, and this involves the fullest use of potential.”

Jane Roberts

Session 163
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 4

Personality

“Later, in your time, all of you will look down into the physical system like giants peering through small windows at the others now in your position and smile. But you will not want to stay, nor crawl through the same enclosures... We protect such systems. Our basic and ancient knowledge automatically reaches out to nourish all system that grow”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 256

Smile , Knowledge , Time

“Thoughts of such magnificent vigor began to think their own thoughts-and their thoughts thought thoughts. As if in divine astonishment and surprise, All That Is began to listen, and began to respond to these generations of thoughts and dreams, for the thoughts and dreams related to each other also.”

Jane Roberts

Session 883, Page 128
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)

Dreams , Thinking

“Projections involve many more aspects of the whole self, and are a mark that the personality is progressing in important ways. The inner senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and the whole self retains experience that it would not otherwise. When this knowledge becomes part of the usual waking consciousness, that is when you realize what you have done, then you have taken a gigantic step forward. An almost automatic determination must be set up however if projections with conscious awareness are to be anything but rare oddities.”

Jane Roberts

Session 274, Page 280
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 6

Way , Knowledge , Sense , Freedom

“All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 269-270

Change

“If you examine your thoughts for five minutes at various times during the day for several times a month, you will indeed receive a correct impression of the kind of life you have arranged for yourself in the next existence. If you are not pleased with what you discover, then you had better begin changing the nature of your thoughts and feelings.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth Speaks (1972), p. 172

Life , Feeling , Nature , Change

“There were, indeed, several 'Christs,' several people whose preaching and exploits merged to form the composite figure historically known as Christ. There are all kinds of contradictions in the Bible, and in Christ's own attitudes as depicted, because there were more Christs than one.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 208

People , Christ

“I am not saying that the events in one life cause the events in another, but that there is an overall pattern - a bank of probable events - and that in each life each individual chooses those that suit his or her overall private purposes. Yet those lives will be connected. An individual may have a serious illness in one life. That event may turn up as one uncomfortable nightmare in another existence. In still another life, the individual might have a dear friend who suffers from the same disease. In still another existence the individual might decide to be a doctor, to seek a cause and a cure for the same disease.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 229

Life , Disease , Suffering

“Hatred does not exist as a basic psychological structure. It is, however, the result of psychological manipulation of fear; and fear is not a basic psychological structure.”

Jane Roberts

Session 75, Page 271
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

Fear

“The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data.”

Jane Roberts

Session 24, Page 188
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

“Behind the entire problem, however, is the fear of using one's full power or energy. Cancer patients most usually feel an inner impatience as they sense their own need for future expansion and development, only to feel it thwarted.”

Jane Roberts

Session 5/11, Page 273
The Way Toward Health (1997)

Fear , Feeling , Problem , Sense

“Many body events that you think of in your society as negative -- certain viruses, for example -- are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 16

Health , Thinking

“Seth's book The Nature of Personal Reality, stresses the importance of personal beliefs in the private creation of daily reality. He emphasizes that it's important not to be afraid of thoughts or feelings, particularly of aggressive ones. Expressed naturally and easily through body motion, gestures, and activity, these are a necessary part of corporal reality. Only when we fear them and impede their natural expression dop they back up or become dangerous.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), p. 247

Books , Fear , Feeling , Nature

“Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 359 Session 654

Behavior , Fashion , Learning , Time

“You take it for granted that interpretations of events change, but that certain definite events occurred that are beyond alteration. Instead, the events themselves are not nearly that concrete. You accept one probable event. Someone else may experience instead a version of that event, which then becomes that individual’s felt reality.”

Jane Roberts

Session 729, Page 520
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Reality , Change

“If Utrillo's paintings depicted actual scenes from life, if they were not imaginative pictorial fantasies, then the whole world would have had to be completely different. If Utrillo's representation was valid, then it would mean that mankind had regressed to an astonishing, almost unbelievable degree. All the things that Fitch believed man capable of enjoying -- dignity, solitude, integrity -- would have been experienced in the past. And that, he thought, was impossible. If men had ever possessed these benefits, they would never have given them up.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Rebellers (1963), p. 12

Life , Men , World , Imagination

“You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 77: Session 617: September 25, 1972

“Human consciousness was inherent and latent from the beginning of your physical universe.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 159, quoting from Seth Session 26

Universe

“This leads me of course to at least mention here the cruel methods used in the slaughtering of animals and fowls for human consumption. The creatures are treated as if they possessed no feeling or consciousness of their own - and such attitudes show a most unfortunate misreading of natural events. As a direct result, at least as many diseases develop through such procedures as would exist in a highly primitive society with unsanitary conditions.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 197

Disease , Feeling , Nature , Animals

“Pretend that you are a writer of fiction, and you create a character. This character is so independent, alive and real, that it in turn forms other characters -- and each writes its own book, or forms its own reality. That is a truer picture of your position.”

Jane Roberts

Session 511
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Books , Reality

“The Crucifixion story represented, in your terms, now, the self-destructive aspect of the species at the time. And it represents the self-destructive elements of the species in this time for those who still accept it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 203

Time

“You do not understand the dimensions into which your own thoughts drop, for they continue their own existence, and others look up to them and view them like stars. I am telling you that your own thoughts and mental actions appear to inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 312

Star , Understanding , Appearance

“It may also strike you, my readers, as quite shocking when I tell you that there is no such thing, basically, as disease. There are instead only processes. What you think of disease is instead the result of an exaggeration or overextension of perfectly normal body processes. You are not attacked by viruses, for instance, for all kinds of viruses exist normally in the body. There are no KILLER viruses, then but viruses that go beyond their usual bounds.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 71

Disease , Thinking

“The inner ego always identifies with its source-identity as a beloved, individualized portion of the universe. It is aware of the universal love that is its heritage. It is also aware of the infinite power and strength that composes the very fabric of its being. Through being made aware of these facts, the exterior ego can begin to feel a quicker sense of support and nourishment. The knowledge can let it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child of the universe, both ancient and young at once, with an identity far beyond the annals of time. It is of great value, then, that each person remember this universal affiliation.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 148

Love , Life , Feeling , Support

“It is fashionable to say: You must not eat meat because you are killing the animals, and this is wrong. But in deeper terms, physically and biologically the animals are born from the body of the earth, which is composed of the corpses of men and women as much as it is of other matter. The animals consume you, then, as often as you consume them, and they are as much a part of your humanity as you are a part of their so called animal nature.”

Jane Roberts

Session 725, Page 483
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Women , Men , Fashion , Nature

“Civilizations, both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 277

Time , Past

“Plants will react quite sharply to an abortion. The fetus, however, will also react to the death of an animal in the family, and will be acquainted with the unconscious psychic relationships within the family long before it reaches the sixth month. The plants in a house are also quite aware of the growing fetus; the plants will also pick up the fact that a member of the family is ill, often in advance of physical symptoms. They are that sensitive to the consciousness within cellular structure. Plants will also know whether a fetus is male or female.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 318

Death , Family , Animals , Housing

“If Seth had read Mark's mind, this was an excellent progression. If not, then Mark had deceived himself, and Seth had gone along and taken advantage of the deception. And if Seth was a personification of my subconscious, then this would be an excellent example of subconscious fraud.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 164

Fraud , Reading

“Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones.”

Jane Roberts

Session 932, Page 456
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Communication

“However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form.”

Jane Roberts

Session 735, Page 574
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Life , Suicide

“In Framework 2, extra-natural help, energy, impetus, and knowledge are 'naturally' available.... But only when your own beliefs are clear enough so that the help is not blocked.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 10

Nature , Knowledge , Help

“Telepathy accounts for the usefulness of spoken language. Without telepathy no language would be intelligible.”

Jane Roberts

Session 57, Page 119
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

Intelligence

“When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call upon someone like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it the strength it needs.”

Jane Roberts

Session 491, Page 335
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9

Problem , Christ , Personality

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