130 Quotes by Jane Roberts

Man will not learn the basic nature of reality by studying the physical universe alone, nor will he learn it by studying the personality as it operates within the physical universe alone. The nature of reality can only be approached by an investigation of reality as it is directly experienced in all levels of awareness: reality as it appears under dream conditions, under other conditions of dissociation, and as it appears in the waking condition.

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.

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death – and I believe that it will be – then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

You may want others to change. In doing so you begin with yourself.

Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.

The problem is not in the exterior circumstances but in your own mental attitude toward them, and in the habitual patterns of thought that you have subjectively accepted.

My message to the reader will be: “Basically, you are no more of a physical personality than I am, and in telling you of my reality I tell you of your own.” There.

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

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.