The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events Quotes

“To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.”
― Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

“If someone tells you that pleasure is wrong and tolerance is weakness, and that you must follow this or that dogma blindly in obedience, and if you are told this is that only right road toward the idealized good, then most likely you are dealing with a fanatic. If you are told to kill for the sake of peace, you are dealing with someone who does not understand peace or justice. If you are told to give up your free will, you are dealing with a fanatic!”
― Seth, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events: A Seth Book

“The point of power is in the present. Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. Dumb advice, surely, or so it seems. Yet children know the truth of it. Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.”
― Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

“When a civilization does not support creativity it begins to falter. When it distrusts its gifted people, rather than encouraging them, a nation is at least in trouble.”
― Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

“No person dies without a reason.2 You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.”
― Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

“You do not understand this point clearly at all, but your social organizations, your governments — these are based upon imaginative principles. The basis of your most intimate experience, the framework behind all of your organized structures, rests upon a reality that is not considered valid by the very institutions that are formed through its auspices.”
― Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

“What I have said about viruses applies to all biological life. Viruses are “highly intelligent” — meaning that they react quickly to stimuli. They are responsive to emotional states. They are social. Their scale of life varies considerably, and some can be”
― Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events