Quotes from Jane Roberts

For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.

There is no need to justify your existence. You do not need to write or preach to justify yourselves, for instance. Being is its own justification.

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts.

Your doctors are also the victims of their own belief system, in other words. They constantly surround themselves with negative suggestions. When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. The patient is sometimes compelled to sacrifice one organ after another to his beliefs, and to the doctor's.

True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not.

You would be much better off in reading this book if you asked yourself who you are, rather than asked who I am, for you cannot understand what I am unless you understand the nature of personality and the characteristics of consciousness.

The God concept, of course, originated from mankind's innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.

True creativity comes from enjoying the moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go

You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

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

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

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

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.

One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

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

Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.

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.

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

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

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

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.