JANE ROBERTS

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

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

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

You create your own reality.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if you believe that the world is against you, then so it will be in your experience. And, if you believe that you will begin to deteriorate at age 22, then so you shall.

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.

Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose to make of me, but recognize within yourselves the vitality of your being. And look to no man or no idea or no woman or no dogma, but the vitality of your own being, and trust it. And that which offends your soul, turn away from, but trust yourself.

The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality... you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger.

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.