Excerpts of Chapter 2 REALITY AND PERSONAL BELIEFS You form the fabric of your experience through your own beliefs and expectations. These personal ideas about yourself and the nature of reality will affect your thoughts and emotions. You take your beliefs about reality as truth, and often do not question them. They seem self-explanatory. They appear in your mind as statements of fact, far too obvious for examination. Therefore they …
This page has Book Excerpts from The Nature of Personal Reality written by Jane Roberts and dictated by energy personality Seth. Some more famous teachers and coaches talking about this book: “Seth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. He remains a constant source of knowledge and inspiration in my life.” — Marianne Williamson author of A Return to Love “The Seth books present an alternate map of reality with …
Ultimate destination for the human, or soul, is Truth. Truth can be called by us as Whatever There Is. Normally, one cannot know the Truth in first go. For those who persist, Truth is often discovered through a process of discoveries leading to it. During every stage of this discovering journey, there are human or symbolic guides that arrive. Their arrival is perhaps on the principle of matching energy, we …
Life gives us novel lessons- in life. Each one of us learns one thing or the other from life. However, as You would agree, on most of these lessons, there are differences and arguments among people who experience life everyday- people like You and me. Opinions, conclusions, interpretations galore, what is right and what is wrong. On one such lesson arguments give way to a consensus: ‘One must be able …
You and Happiness. And in-between the two there is ‘Thought’. Yes, ‘thought’, the imaginative snapshot that crosses your eye every moment. Thought sets the tone inside. Each Thought as it crosses leads to an environment setting inside of us. This environment (internal) is precisely the feel-good or feel-bad of our life. Why it stands in-between You and Happiness? Thought has a tendency to run, run and run itself. It runs …
We know what misery is. We know misery precisely because each one of us has felt it somewhere inside her own life. Some days, some months, some years spent in misery. Misery: the degree & recurrence The degree, of course, varies. At the lower end constituting very faint feeling- so much so that some of us would happily refuse to acknowledge its existence. And rightfully so. At its peak, it …
Dance is a hobby, a profession, sometimes an exercise too. Looks like one has covered all perspectives there are to dancing. Perhaps a couple more and we may have a set of utilities that more or less defines the act of dancing and its uses in normal human life. And that’s how we lose the greatest of all happiness-tuners that dancing is. We just missed the essence of dancing. We …
See a child smile. Then, watch her smile turn into laughter. And then make yourself doubly sure that it is the smile that enlivened the atmosphere, including You. And then You got to learn from this. Why does a smile come so naturally and so effortlessly to a child? Is it not because a child’s world is so much simpler? Simpler not just in terms of amount of knowledge of …
Anticipation of the future takes up a lot of our time. We anticipate good and bad events, good and bad fortune, good and bad life-situations. In its healthier avatar, this process of anticipation is demanded by life herself. We need to predict life-pathways and strategize. So we anticipate. But don’t we overdo it often. So much that people end up spending a lifetime in some kind of anticipation. They know …
Life as is gifted to You is all Energy. Energy- its reservoir, its interaction, its sink- all operating through You. It appears as if we are handed over a quantum of Energy for a lifetime. To do whatever we want to with our quantum. ‘You are your Energy. Our Energy is our possibility.’ It makes full sense to invest your entire Energy quantum towards growth. Most of us indeed attempt …
