SETH QUOTES![]() CHAPTER 12: Reincarnational Relationships "Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values...and you grow spiritually as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas." "You will draw to yourself those with the same concerns." "Many of your ideas of good and evil are highly distortive, and shadow all understanding you have of the nature of reality." "He who hates an evil merely creates another one." "Someone very well known who established a church--if you will, a civilization--once said, 'Turn the other cheek if you are attacked.'You should turn the other cheek because you realize that basically the attacker only attacks himself.' Then you are free, and the reaction is a good one. If you turn the other cheek without this understanding, however, and feel resentful, or if you turn the other cheek out of a feeling of pseudomoral superiority, then the reaction is far from adequate." "If you hate another person, that hate may bind you to him through as many lives as you allow the hate to consume you." "You draw to yourself in this existence and in all others those qualities upon which you concentrate your attention. If you vividly concern yourself with the injustices you feel have been done you, then you attract more such experience, and if this goes on, then it will be mirrored in your next existence." "Consciousness will expand. It will create. It will turn itself inside out to do so. There is nothing outside of yourself that will force you to understand these issues or face them." "You are setting the stage for your 'next' life now." "The thoughts you think today will in one way or another become the fabric of your next existence. There are no magic words that will make you wise, that will fill you with understanding and compassion, that will expand your consciousness." "Your thoughts and everyday experience contain the answers. Any successes in this life, any abilities, have been worked out through past experience. They are yours by right. You worked to develop them. If you look about you at your relatives, friends, acquaintances, and business associates, you will also see what kind of person you are, for you are drawn to them as they are drawn to you, through very basic inner similarities." "The inner self is always aware of the hidden mechanisms of these family gestalts." "Only true compassion and love will lead to an understanding of the nature of good, and only these qualities will serve to annihilate the erroneous and distortive concepts of evil." "The simple fact is that as long as you believe in the concept of evil, it is a reality in your system, and you will always find it manifested. If you carry this concept through succeeding generations, through reincarnations, then you add to its reality." "Love always involves freedom." "If you hate evil, then beware of your conception of the word. Hate is restrictive. It narrows down your perception." "If you expand your sense of love, of health, and existence, then you are drawn in this life and in others toward these qualities; again, because they are those upon which you concentrate." "A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace." "Those sparks of truth, intuition, love, joy, creativity, and accomplishment gained now, will work for you then as then do now. They are...the only true realities." "One individual will feel within the storm the unending cycle of creativity, and another will personify it as the work of the devil." "Through all your lives you will interpret the reality that you see in your own way, and that way will have its effect upon you, and in turn upon others." "The man who literally hates, immediately sets himself up in this fashion: He prejudges the nature of reality according to his own limited understanding." "A man who hates always believes himself justified. He never hates anything that he believes to be good. He thinks he is being just, therefore, in his hatred, but the hatred itself forms a very strong claim that will follow him throughout his lives, until he learns that only the hatred itself is the destroyer." "Remember what you concentrate upon." "Some individuals are being reborn at this time simply to help you understand. They are forcing the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time to change your ways. You are working on two main problems, but both involve the sacredness of the individual, and the individual's relationship with others and with all physically oriented consciousness." "The problem of war will sooner or later teach you that when you kill another man, basically you will end up killing yourself." "In each life you are meant to check the exterior environment in order to learn your inner condition. The outer is a reflection of the inner." "You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward." "When you get to the point that you realize you are forming your day-to-day existence and the life that you realize you know, then you can begin to alter your own mental and psychic patterns, and therefore change your daily environment." "The entire structure of your existence will begin to change with these realizations, and an acceleration of spiritual and psychic growth will develop." |