# Quote — Jane Roberts, The Unknown Reality, Volume Two

> Pretend that you are a writer of fiction, and you create a character. This character is so independent, alive and real, that it in turn forms other characters -- and each writes its own book, or forms its own reality. That is a truer picture of your position.

- Author: [Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md)
- Book: [The Unknown Reality, Volume Two](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-unknown-reality-volume-two.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-unknown-reality-volume-two/pretend-that-you

## More from this book

> You are not a miniature self, an adjunct to some superbeing, never to share fully In its reality. In those terms you are that superself - looking out of only one eye, or using just one finger. Much of this is very difficult to verbalize. You are not subordinate to some giant consciousness. While you think in such terms, however, I must speak of reincarnational selves counterparts, because you are afraid that if you climb out of what you think your identity is, then you will lose it.

p. 618 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-unknown-reality-volume-two/you-are-not.md)

> However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form.

p. 574 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-unknown-reality-volume-two/however-suicides-and.md)

> Again, your being is never annihilated, but continues to develop its own existence in other ways. A portion of you has lived many lives upon this planet, but the "you" that you know is freshly here, and will never again encounter space and time in precisely the same way. The same applies to each life lived either before or after. Biologically you rest upon a heritage, however, and psychically the same applies. The soul, or this greater personage, does not simply send out an old self in new clothes time and time again, but each time a new, freshly-minted self that then develops and goes its own way. That self rides firmly, however, in the great flight of experience, and feels within itself all of those other fully unique versions that also fling their way into existence.

p. 492 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-unknown-reality-volume-two/again-your-being.md)