“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One person may desire fame, and even possess certain abilities that he or she wants to use, and that will indeed lead to that claim. Such a person may also believe that fortune or fame leads to unhappiness, licentiousness, or in some other way brings about disastrous conditions. Here we have a clear purpose to use abilities and receive acclaim. We also have another quite opposing clear purpose: to avoid fame.

For now, consider a very simple act. You want to walk across the room and pick up a paper, for example. That purpose is simple and direct enough. It automatically propels your body in the proper fashions, even though you are not consciously aware of the inner mechanisms involved. You do not imagine the existence of blocks or impediments in your way, in the form of additional furniture placed in your path by accident, fate, or design. You make a simple straight path in the proper direction. The act has meaning because it is something you want to do.

There are purposes not nearly as easy to describe, however, intents of a psychological nature, yearnings toward satisfactions not so easily categorized. Man experiences ambitions, desires, likes and dislikes of a highly emotional nature — and at the same time he has intellectual beliefs about himself, his feelings, and the world. These are the result of training, for you use your mind as you have been taught.

There are people who want children and mates, and have those excellent qualities that would serve them well as parents. Some of those same individuals may be convinced that love is wrong, however, or that sex is debasing, or that children mean the end of youth. Such persons may then find themselves breaking off good relationships with those of the other sex for no apparent reason, or forcing the other party to break with them. Here again we have two clear purposes, but they oppose each other.

In fact, you may discover not just one you, but several you’s, so to speak, each pursuing certain purposes, and you may find out furthermore that some such purposes cancel others out, while some are diametrically opposed to each other. Such cross purposes, of course, can lead to mental, spiritual, physical and emotional difficulties.

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LIVING AT CROSS PURPOSES

[...] Living at Cross Purposes.”

[...] In such cases you have two cross-purposes operating — the desire to express oneself, and the fear of doing so.

Life and consciousness, without the means to express them, are not meaningless, for life and consciousness have their own purposes; and of these purposes I am not prepared now to tell you.

The word purpose implies limited dimension. Value fulfillment has no such implications, and the purposes of which I have spoken are multidimensional. [...]

Both of us are obviously then portions of a larger self, and manifestations of it, but one does not end in the other, and one’s purpose is not to become the other. [...] Keep this sort of thing in mind when you think in terms of purposes. [...]

[...] It will serve a purpose and be a reality in your time. [...]

We come back to will and freedom, discipline and purpose. [...] You trusted it however only because it was merged with creative purpose. He therefore used it only for such purpose, not wanting to frighten you with it otherwise because he loved you so.

[...] If will and power meant relative immobility but purpose—and purpose was what he had—then in the past he chose that above what he thought of as laxness, relaxation, and physical freedom that might mean frittering away ability, a relaxation in which nothing was accomplished.

Ruburt chose the parents to see the contrast and learn the best way for him in which purpose could be combined with spontaneity, the will with the spirit. [...] All of this applied to his mental, psychic, spiritual, and physical life, and his overall purpose.

[...] She was filled with energy however, and purpose.

You cannot pervert them by trying to force them to serve purposes that you have set up as a condition of existence. You must live in the faith that your purpose is and will be fulfilled, is being fulfilled and will be fulfilled. You must live in the faith that you have such a meaning and purpose, or you would not be here.

[...] You must accept life on its own terms with the faith that your life now has a meaning and a beauty and a purpose. [...] Then you will begin to see the meaning in your life that has always been there, and the purpose and joy that you have not been able to fill.

[...] You have a fine, strong and worthwhile purpose, but you will not fulfill it well while you rail against what you do not have, and ignore the abilities and gifts and blessings that you do have.

You will not discover the purpose and meaning of your life when you insist that it follow certain consciously predetermined roads, and while you concentrate upon what you do not have. [...]

[...] My purpose is to protect and direct your energies specifically in the areas of writing and painting. [...] I want this dialogue because my purposes were not being met. [...]

That purpose unites you, and when you are not tuned to it completely you are unhappy or sick, one or the other. [...] It is the purpose that gives everything else in your lives meaning. [...]

[...] The constant suggestions took root, and I used this for my purposes.

[...] All you have to do to please me is work a reasonable amount of hours daily; then I do not care what you do, but I expect that purpose to govern and direct your lives to be the focus about which all other events happen, not a sideline.

[...] Any words of mine will always be spoken to quicken your own education for as I have said often, I am an educator and that is my main purpose and my purpose in this class. [...]

This does not mean that the demonstration serves no purpose, for all of my demonstrations serve a purpose and this one is to show that there is indeed a vitality that lives beyond the grave and that there is joy, and the personality continues to exist for this most willing and friendly associative man can permit me to speak in the most fearless and carefree tones. [...]

[...] Now, it will not particularly serve any great or awesome purpose for me to thus appear in this guise nor to raise my voice in a way quite impossible for this rather puny young woman, and yet because the circumstances are so auspicious I am so tempted. [...]

[...] Upon many occasions the purposes of the ego coincide with the purposes of the whole personality, but upon many occasions the purposes of the ego do not coincide with the best purposes of the whole personality. [...]

On the part of any human personality, therefore, it is extremely important that methods be learned to let action follow its normal directive bent within the personality, therefore avoiding these abortive offshoots that impede main directives and purposes of the unit as a whole.

The inner self here, through intuitive insight, can usually recognize whether an action is an impeding or a constructive one for the purposes of the personality involved. [...]

It is extremely difficult, but it is possible for the human system to close off, for all practical purposes, a channel that has been used for the flow of such an impeding action. [...]

[...] He was appalled that your ability, while disciplined, lacked the intent and purpose, the search for truth and meaning, he felt being adulterated. Ruburt, with high youthful ideals, a strong sense of purpose, then came into the picture. [...] Nebene felt the purpose would save your abilities.

[...] He was a man of the strongest purpose, high dedication, a severe perfectionist who drove himself and his students. [...]

[...] Ruburt, who had led him astray in the past, would now lead you into high purpose and dedication. [...]

[...] At the same time he also felt guilty and the book, Seven, is filled with purpose regardless.

To paint pictures or write books is only the topmost cover for a life’s purpose, for the paintings or the books contain the purpose, but are not the purpose itself. [...]

[...] When you do this, you can indeed see the overall purpose of your life—but you cannot do so until you approve of yourself, and recognize that you as an individual are unique, and uniquely a part of all reality.

[...] Your purpose is in what you are, and when you do not approve of what you are, you cannot see it. [...]

It would help you both considerably, if when you have the feeling of self-approval really, to sit quietly and try to feel your purposes. [...]

When it is followed without the addition of unrestrained and purposely cruel purposes having nothing to do with the basic necessity, arrival and departure then can be seen as the two faces of male and female, each serving the basic purpose of value fulfillment and creation.

[...] The individual, for example, can to some extent for the purposes of our discussion be considered as elements or energy under psychic centralized control. On your plane you are in closed space, so to speak, physical elements formed into a purposeful gestalt.

[...] But this destructiveness in itself serves the purposes of creativeness and arrival. [...] I am saying that the basic structure involving the constant conception of one life form by another serves the purposes of continuing creation.

A dispersion has begun in which the ego will find it more and more difficult to hold energy within forms of personal identity, or to use energy for the purposes of the ego. [...]

Now, each whole self, or multidimensional personality, has its own purposes, missions, and creative endeavors that are initial and basic parts of itself and that determine those qualities that make it eternally valid and eternally seeking. [...] We face many challenges of quite momentous nature, and we realize that our purposes are not only important in themselves, but for the surprising offshoots that develop in our efforts to pursue them. In working for our purposes, we realize we are blazing trails that can also be used by others.

[...] We do not fritter it away, but utilize it for those unique and individual purposes that are a basic part of our psychological experience.

We also suspect — certainly I do — that the purposes themselves will have surprising results, astounding consequences that we have never realized, and that they will merely lead to new avenues. [...]

We can be highly motivated therefore, and yet use and understand the creative use of play, both as a method of attaining our goals and purposes and as a surprising and creative endeavor in itself.

These “period pieces,” overall, have a particular purpose. [...]

[...] It changes its form to suit its expression, and it forms environments like stage settings, and worlds to suit its purposes. [...]

[...] The three-dimensional self then goes about its purpose of opening up new areas of creativity.

[...] Their purpose is to open up within the three-dimensional selves those psychological doorways that will release the three-dimensional self for further development in another system of reality.

[...] It was necessary and served a purpose. One purpose was his realization that such a book, for now, even at his best, with personal orientation, was not his cup of tea. [...]

[...] Tam knew the purposes of Adventures from the beginning—as did Ruburt, but neither of them could act on that knowledge consciously, for it did not serve as yet their conscious purposes.

There are intertwining purposes then that were met. There is other material I will give you later, that is involved here, and purposes in your art you are barely beginning to understand—and with that I bid you good night.

This has to do in your terms with reincarnational relationships that I purposely have not given you.

[...] You think that your purpose in life must be to be something else, or someone else, than you are. In such a situation many people seek out causes, and hope to merge the purposes of the cause with their own unrecognized one.

[...] Many of the parents believed, quite simply, that the purpose of life was to make more money. [...] What about those purposes they sensed? [...]

[...] The villains consisted of the following ideas: that the world is unsafe, and growing deadly; that the species itself is tainted by a deadly intent; that the individual has no power over his or her reality; that society or social conditions exist as things in themselves, and that their purposes run directly counter to the fulfillment of the individual; and lastly, that the end justifies the means, and that the action of any kind of god is powerless in the world.

[...] In death they fulfilled their purposes, making a mass statement. [...]

(11:09.) Ruburt is impatient on purpose, of course. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s impatience, then, should not be overdone, for then it defeats its purpose. [...]

[...] The super-conscientious self represents the purposes to which these abilities will be put—how and when they shall be used. The super-conscientious self is the motivation power or purpose.

[...] He does not feel free to use his full energy until all portions of the personality are convinced of the goodness of his purpose. [...]

[...] There is a need for the spontaneous self to understand the purposes of the conscientious self also.

[...] It should be remembered that the overly conscientious self is also responsible for lifelong continuity of purpose, giving direction to the spontaneous self.

[...] You have lived here some years yet purposely avoided thinking of it, this apartment, as anything but transitory lest you put down roots and become involved in ways that might distract you from your work and purposes. [...]

[...] You want results, so, at the very least a ½ hour a day is to be used for this purpose, and when you have the time an hour. [...]

[...] Thoughts of buying a house throw both of you into a quandary because they directly come in conflict with your private ideas about your work and purposes, and your places in the world.

[...] For your particular purposes you also needed to be free of many strong emotional attachments—not because such attachments are not good, but because for you and your purposes they would blur the issues.

The purposes were there. [...]

Ruburt wanted to have a strong emotional nature in order to relate with other people, and yet also wanted to control and focus that nature so that it would also be directed toward his purpose. [...]

[...] Someone working for their own purposes at an entirely different level might choose a physical condition that necessitated the medical profession, and might result in an important medical discovery.

Its workings entail cooperative ventures literally beyond your comprehension —ventures in which each life, and each detail of each life, has a purpose, a well-intended purpose, so that when it naturally seeks its own good it also increases the good of all. [...]

In that framework, necessary death is meted out in such a manner that each creature understands that its own death serves a greater purpose—and further understands that there is no malice involved (whispering).

[...] The purpose to eat was good—well-intentioned. [...]

[...] His purpose and his psychological progress have led him to further activations, and as I have said several times, this means that sometimes he will feel like walking, and will do so with a relative amount of balance, and on other occasions, perhaps 20 minutes earlier or later, his walking might be uncomfortable and “worse” in performance.