# Quote — Jane Roberts, Dreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment, Volume One

> Beyond that, however, genetic messages are coded in such a way that there is a constant give-and-take between those messages and the present experience of any given individual. That is, no genetic event is inevitable.

- Author: [Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md)
- Book: [Dreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment, Volume One](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-one.md)
- Page: 271
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-one/beyond-that-however

## More from this book

> Each unit of consciousness inherently possesses within itself all of the information available to the whole, and its specific nature when it operated as a particle rests upon that great body of inner knowledge.

p. 176 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-one/each-unit-of-consciousness.md)

> Each individual of whatever species, and each consciousness, whatever its degree, automatically seeks to enhance the quality of life itself - not only for itself but for all of reality as well.

p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-one/each-individual-of-whatever.md)

> Many people ask, for example: What is the purpose of my life? Meaning: What am I meant to do? But the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being. That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.

p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/dreams-evolution-and-value-fulfillment-volume-one/many-people-ask.md)