Seth Quotes

"A soul is not something that you have. It is what you are."

"Your most intimate powerful inner identity—is and must be forever changing."

"It is in a state of becoming."

"But the soul or entity has its existence basically in other dimensions, and in these, fulfillment is not dependent upon arrivals at any points, spiritual or otherwise."

"The ego, in other words, the 'exterior' self that you think of as your self-that portion of you maintains its safety and its seeming command precisely because inner layers of your own personality constantly uphold it, keep the physical body operating, and maintain communications with the multitudinous stimuli that come both from outside conditions and inside conditions. The soul or entity is not diminished but expanded through reincarnations, through existence and experience in probable realities."

"There are no limitations to your own entity: therefore, how can your entity or soul have boundaries, for boundaries would enclose it and deny it freedom."

"The soul or entity is itself the most highly motivated, most highly energized, and most potent consciousness-unit known in any universe."

"In many ways the soul is an incipient god."

"When you understand to some extent who and what you are, then I can explain more clearly who and what I am."

"Remember...that even the body is in a constant state of almost magical activity."

"The ego as you know it is only a small portion of the self."

"In considering 'immortality,' mankind seems to hope for further egotistical development, and yet he objects to the idea that such development might involve change."

"The term, 'to lose or save your soul,' has been grossly misinterpreted and distorted, for it is the part of you that is indeed indestructible."

"Your own personality as you know it, that portion of you that you consider most precious, most uniquely you, will also never be destroyed or lost."

"It is, nevertheless, only one aspect of your soul."

"The personality you are now and the personality that you have been and will be-in the terms in which you understand time-all of these personalities are manifestations of the soul, of your soul."

"Your soul, therefore, possesses the wisdom, information, and knowledge that is part of the experience of all these other personalities; and you have within yourselves access to this information, but only if you realize the true nature of your reality."

"It grows and develops even through the experience of those personalities that compose it, and it is...more than the sum of its parts."

"There are no closed systems in reality. In your physical system the nature of your perceptions limits your idea of reality to some extent, because you purposely decide to focus within a given 'locale.' But basically speaking, consciousness can never be a closed system, and all barriers of such a nature are illusion. Therefore the soul itself is not a closed system. When you consider the soul, however, you usually think of it in such a light-unchanging, a psychic or spiritual citadel. But citadels not only keep out invaders, they also prevent expansion and development."

"For even to have a glimpse in logical terms you would have to understand it in spiritual, psychic, and electromagnetic terms, and understand the basic nature of consciousness and action as well."

"In many ways intuitive knowledge is superior to any other kind."

"One prerequisite for such an intuitive understanding of the soul is the desire to achieve it."

"Close your eyes after having read this chapter to this point, and try to sense within yourself the source of power from which your own breathing and life forces come. Some of you will do this successfully at your first try. Others may take longer. When you feel within yourself this source, then try to sense this power flow outward through your entire physical being, through the fingertips and toes, through the pores of your body, all directions, with yourself as center. Imagine the rays undiminished, reaching then through the foliage and clouds above, through the center of the earth below, extending even to the farthest reaches of the universe."

"While you hold limited concepts of your own reality, then you cannot practically take advantage of many abilities that are your own; and while you have a limited concept of the soul, then to some extent you cut yourself off from the source of your own being and creativity."

"What often happens is that your conception of reality is so limited that you take fright whenever you perceive any experience that does not fit into your conception."

"You seem to perceive exclusively through your physical senses, and yet you have only to extend your egotistical idea of reality, and you will find even your egotistical self accepting quite readily the existence of nonphysical information."

"Now any act of perception changes the perceiver, and so the soul, considered as a perceiver, must also change."

"There are no real divisions between the perceiver and the thing seemingly perceived."

"This characteristic of materializing thoughts and emotions into physical realities is an attribute of the soul. Now in your reality, these thoughts are made physical. In other realities, they may be 'constructed' in an entirely different fashion. So your soul, that which you are, constructs your physical daily reality for you from the nature of your thoughts and expectations."

"When you do not understand the nature of the soul, and do not realize that your thoughts and feelings form physical reality, then you feel powerless to change it."

"The soul, however, does not need to follow the laws and principles that are a part of the physical reality, and it does not depend upon physical perception. The soul's perceptions are of acts and events that are mental, that lie, so to speak, beneath physical events as you know them."

"The soul's perceptions are not dependent upon time, because time is a physical camouflage and does not apply to nonphysical reality."

"Each event of which you are aware is already a translation of an inner event, a psychic or mental event that is perceived by the soul directly, but translated by the physically oriented portions of the self into physical sense terms."

"It goes without saying then that the soul does not require a physical body for purposes of perception; that perception is not dependent upon physical senses; that experience continues whether or not you are in this life or another; and also that the soul's basic methods of perception are also operating within you now even as you read this book. It also follows that your experience within the physical system is dependent upon a physical form and physical senses-again, because these interpret reality and translate it into physical data. It also follows that some hints of the soul's direct experience can be gained by momentarily switching the physical senses off-by refusing to use them as preceptors, and falling back upon other methods. Now you do this to some extent in the dream state, but even then in many dreams you still tend to translate experience into hallucinatory physical terms. Most of the dreams that you recall are of this nature."

"In a manner of speaking, you continually create your soul as it continually creates you."

"The soul is never diminished, nor basically are any portions of the self."

"The soul can be considered as an electromagnetic energy field, of which you are a part. It is a field of concentrated action when you consider it in this light-a powerhouse of probabilities or probable actions, seeking to be expressed; a grouping of nonphysical consciousnesses that nevertheless knows itself as an identity."

"The soul knows that good and evil are but different manifestations of a far greater reality."

"It is not lost, and you are not lost. The words you use may make no difference, but your intent does indeed."