Top 100 Jane Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.”

— Jane Roberts

52. “Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.”

— Jane Roberts

53. “I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.”

— Jane Roberts

54. “Two men for example, of precisely the same physical age, of precisely the same physical condition, will be in completely different states of mind, of competence, of effectiveness and of strength, as a direct result of their inner beliefs as to their relative freedom within the framework of the physical system in which they exist. The man who does not realize his basic independence from the physical system will not have the same freedom within it.”

— Jane Roberts

55. “In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.”

— Jane Roberts

56. “A new belief in the present, however, can cause changes in the past on a neuronal level. You must understand that basically time is simultaneous. Present beliefs can indeed alter the past. In some cases of healing, in the spontaneous disappearance of cancer, for instance, or of any other disease, certain alterations are made that affect cellular memory, genetic codes, or neuronal patterns in the past.”

— Jane Roberts

57. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

58. “You must again realize that we speak of the self as being so divided only for simplicity’s sake. While the self is whole, it is however compartmentalized for efficiency’s sake, but beneath consciousness the doors are open. Again, the conscious self is most necessary. However it cannot be stressed too strongly that consciousness is merely a state of focus, and not a self. Consciousness is the direction in which the self looks at any given time.”

— Jane Roberts

59. “You are each born with the conscious knowledge of what has come before. Your brain is far from an empty slate, waiting for the first imprint of experience; it is already equipped with complete “equations”, telling you who you are and where you have come from. Nor do you wipe that slate clean, symbolically speaking, before you write your life upon it. Instead, you draw upon what has gone before: the experiences of your ancestors, back through time immemorial.”

— Jane Roberts

60. “The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. If these ideas were followed individually and collectively, then the evidence of your physical senses would find no contradiction. They would perceive the world and existence as good. This.”

— Jane Roberts

61. “You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.”

— Jane Roberts

62. “I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.”

— Jane Roberts

63. “The ego is a jealous god, and it wants its interests served. It does not want to admit the reality of any dimensions except those within which it feels comfortable and can understand. It was meant to be an aid but it has been allowed to become a tyrant.”

— Jane Roberts

64. “The God concept, of course, originated from mankind’s innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.”

— Jane Roberts

65. “It is imperative that we move away from the concept of a self as an indivisible, rigid and limited reality.”

— Jane Roberts

66. “To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.”

— Jane Roberts

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

— Jane Roberts

68. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

69. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

70. “Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.”

— Jane Roberts

71. “If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.”

— Jane Roberts

72. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

73. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

74. “I hope that this book will serve to release the deeply intuitive self within each of my readers, and to bring to the foreground of consciousness whatever particular insights will serve you most. As.”

— Jane Roberts

75. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

76. “It is only the ego that steps from moment to moment, as a man who walks from puddle to puddle. It is only the ego who drowns in time.”

— Jane Roberts

77. “Exuberance and joy, however, basically have nothing to do with time or age.”

— Jane Roberts

78. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

79. “You cannot learn about yourself by studying what is expected of you by others – but only by asking yourself what you expect of yourself, and discovering for yourself in what direction your abilities lie. End.”

— Jane Roberts

80. “True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not.”

— Jane Roberts

81. “You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister – or from reading my book.”

— Jane Roberts

82. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

83. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

84. “What do you think of yourself, your daily life, your body, your relationship with others? Ask yourself these questions. Write down the answers or speak them into a recorder. But in one way or another objectify them.”

— Jane Roberts

85. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

86. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

87. “I communicate with your dimension, for example, not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there. All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now. On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.”

— Jane Roberts

88. “Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.”

— Jane Roberts

89. “Though this book is entitled The Way Toward Health, we are not speaking of physical health alone, but of mental, spiritual, and emotional health as well.”

— Jane Roberts

90. “Guilt is the other side of compassion. Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. Guilt in that respect therefore has a strong natural basis, and when it is perverted, misused or misunderstood, it has that great terrifying energy of any runaway basic phenomenon.”

— Jane Roberts

91. “When the outer ego is narrow, and poorly represents these subdominant personalities then they rise up in arms, and when conditions are favorable attempt to express themselves through a momentary weakness on the part of the dominant ego. But without even doing this they may momentarily take over or express themselves through a single function, such as speech or motion, while the outer ego is blissfully unaware.”

— Jane Roberts

92. “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.”

— Jane Roberts

93. “When a civilization does not support creativity it begins to falter. When it distrusts its gifted people, rather than encouraging them, a nation is at least in trouble.”

— Jane Roberts

94. “You prefer to identify with the part of you who watches television or cooks or works – the part you think knows what it is doing. But.”

— Jane Roberts

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

— Jane Roberts

96. “Few studies have been done to discover why the happy man is happy, yet his answers would be highly pertinent.”

— Jane Roberts

97. “You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it.”

— Jane Roberts

98. “It goes without saying that some people become ill rather than change their activities and their environments. They may also become ill, of course, to force themselves to make such changes. End.”

— Jane Roberts

99. “A new pet given to a bereaved individual has saved more people from needing heart operations than any physician.”

— Jane Roberts

100. “Your psychologists are not able to think in terms of a soul, and your religious leaders are not able, or refuse, to comprehend it psychologically even to its simplest degree. Metaphysics and psychology have not met, in other words.”

— Jane Roberts