“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] To some extent, the feeling of grace is your emotional recognition of the necessity, purpose and freedom, the innate appreciation, of your rightness and your place in existence.

[...] (Pause.) Because the body exists in space and time, the organs have specific purposes. [...]

[...] (Pause.) One of the purposes of this book is to tell you that no one is born to be a sickly person, so reading it can help you there.

[...] (Pause.) Physically speaking, man’s “purpose” is to help enrich the quality of existence in all of its dimensions. Spiritually speaking, his “purpose” is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create other dimensions of reality of which he is presently unaware. [...]

(Pause at 9:31.) All units of consciousness, whatever their degree, possess purpose and intent. [...]

[...] Problems are often set as challenges, to be accepted and used for a greater purpose.

[...] The inhibition you were enforcing upon yourself by working outside was reflected in your work inevitably, as soon as you became aware that the course no longer served its purpose. [...]

[...] It did not serve his purposes. [...]

[...] They purposely alter and change their given sense data, and experiment with it.

[...] In such periods, certain symbols can be lost to all intents and purposes, dropping out of an individual’s experience, leaving gaps of inertia.

It is also beneficial to dip into those areas with no purpose in mind, for here whatever necessary information that you require without your conscious knowledge can be made available. [...]

Events are attracted or repelled by you according to your loves, beliefs, intents, and purposes. [...]

[...] Love, purpose, belief, and intent — these shape your physical body and work upon it and with it even as at other levels cellular consciousness forms it.

[...] Desire, love, intent, belief and purpose — these form the experience of your body and all the events it perceives. [...]

It goes without saying that these are not haphazard developments, and that in pursuing literally infinities of probable actions, the prime identity has definite purposes in mind. These purposes cannot be fully explained here, and I am not aware of all of them.

[...] It is not aware of all of its own purposes, for some of these are ever new. [...]

In the following chapter I hope to give you an idea, quite simply, of our existence, the work in which we are involved, the dimension in which we exist, the purposes that we hold dear; and most of all, of those concerns that make up our experience.

[...] There is a need in him for excitement, but because of the maturity of the personality, the excitement now must in some manner be purposeful.

[...] The more energy that is used on Ruburt’s part in exciting creative ways, the more is available, you see, for therapeutic purposes. [...]

In our dream experiments therefore, this is one of the purposes that we hope to achieve. [...]

We will be involved with a study of the characteristics of the dream world in general, and attempt to isolate it as a separate reality simply for the purposes of examination. [...]

While I’m sure your purposes

[...] It is quite earnest in its own desire to “be good,” or to feel a sense of grace in its being, so it does understand that kind of purpose. [...]

In the framework of the Sinful Self’s points of reference and in the Catholic philosophy in which it is based, suffering for a good purpose, toward a good end, toward a good goal for the sake of the soul, is a virtue. [...]

[...] That purpose is the same as Ruburt’s own, but its methods and understanding are still at a certain level, a level that can indeed be changed and reeducated. [...]

[...] Each person senses now and then a private purpose, and yet many are filled with frustration because that inner goal is not consciously known or clearly apprehended.

[...] I have a purpose, even though I do not understand what it is. [...]

Though caught up in a life of seeming frustration, obsessed with family problems, uneasy in sickness, defeated it seems for all practical purposes, some portion of each individual rouses against all disasters, all discouragements, and now and then at least glimpses a sense of enduring validity that cannot be denied. [...]

[...] Instead, for example, for news or for advice you watch your morning television news, which provides you with a kind of manufactured dream that to some extent technologically serves the same purpose. [...] Their purpose was and is to increase the value fulfillment of the species and of the individual.

(Long pause at 9:00.) One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself. [...]

[...] If you purposefully, now, or with malice, step upon an ant, then to the extent of your malice you step upon yourself all unknowing. [...]

[...] Here we have also free will, but a continuity so to speak of purposes. No purpose is forced upon any personality. He, the personality, adopts in various reincarnations upon your plane those purposes most in keeping with his own needs. [...]

[...] The intellect must deal and interpret the realities of camouflage existence, this being its purpose.

[...] Illness is often another mode of expression, but nowhere does science mention that illness might have its purpose, or its groups of purposes, and I do not mean that the purposes themselves are necessarily derogatory. [...] [Sickness] can be a badge of honor or dishonor—but there can be no question, when you look at the human picture, that to a certain extent, but an important one, suffering not only has its purposes and uses, but is actively sought for one reason or another.

[...] Drawing in its simplest form is, again, an extension of those inclinations, and in a fashion serves two purposes. [...]

The species chooses the best conditions in which to display and develop such a capacity to the utmost, taking into consideration all its other needs and purposes. [...]

All of this involved the triggering of innate abilities at certain points in time by the species at large, and on the parts of certain individuals, as their purposes and those of the species merged.

Woodcuts and wood blocks were used for a variety of purposes by the ancient Chinese and Egyptians, for example, and even by the Romans. [...]

[...] By themselves they can act to unlock additional energy, vitality, and quicken his sense of purpose.

The first chapter of the book can be called, quite simply: “The Purpose of This Book, and Some Important Comments About Exuberance and Health.”

[...] Instead, “the writer” was seen in his mind as the dominant part of the self, definitely apart from other portions, and with different goals and purposes.

Your own paintings served a husbandly purpose. [...]

[...] There were other entries available, but he understood your purposes, and accepted you as a mother to show you that he held no grudges. [...]

Your sister was also fond of the uncle, and therefore was instrumental in this life in allowing him new entry; but you joined for that purpose only. [...]

Ruburt’s project—and this book (Dreams)—serve the same purpose to him, of course, as painting does for you, and such activity can in that light only benefit him. [...]