“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Use it for whatever  purposes you will but be open to it. [...]

[...] The death serves a purpose species-wise while it also serves the purposes of the individual, for no death comes unbidden.

To some degree, epidemics and recognized illnesses serve the sociological purpose of providing an acceptable reason for death — a face-saving device for those who have already decided to die. This does not mean that such individuals make a conscious decision to die, in your terms: But such decisions are often semiconscious (intently). It might be that those individuals feel they have fulfilled their purposes — but such decisions may also be built upon a different kind of desire for survival than those understood in Darwinian terms.

An epidemic, for example, serves the purposes of each individual who is involved, while it also serves its own functions in the greater species framework.

[...] This purpose would be entwined with the parents’ intent. [...]

[...] It seemed to him, with the force of old beliefs, that Ida, Richard and the children were indeed driven willy-nilly by contradictory impulses, and that their lives lack any organizing inner purpose.

(10:25.) I want to emphasize that your brother and sister-in-law have their own purposes, and I am not putting down their realities. [...]

[...] To what purpose do they use it? [...]

Now let us look at yesterday (Sunday) morning, and for background remember the bodybuilders, who purposefully shut out all annoying distractions. [...]

You would go out of your way not to give such approval, by making a joke or whatever, because you did not believe that verbal communication should be used for such purposes. [...]

[...] The bodybuilder does not think he is inhibiting his expression if he chooses to focus on his bodybuilding to the exclusion of distractions that may be quite real but detrimental to his purpose. [...]

[...] Both of you subconsciously knew its purpose. You used suggestion to control it, so that it was severe enough to suit your purposes, and yet not so severe that you could not make it home when you wanted to.

[...] At no time in physical life is so much energy utilized so purposefully, so well directed. [...]

[...] He makes them a combat zone: his will versus his symptoms, and this defeats his purpose.

[...] In this case pleasure on his part supersedes the purpose, and therefore reinforces it. [...]

They are meant to enkindle you, and program the self that you know in line with the purposes of the inner self. [...]

[...] All divisions are simply for the purpose of organizations of consciousness. The families mix and interrelate, so that you could indeed subdivide them, but for my purpose there is little point to this.

[...] Every so often someone wants to know about the extent to which we follow Seth’s advice or information, and I suppose a good answer is that we may decide to go along with it if it suits our conscious purposes to do so. [...]

Until today he did not realize that the intent of his will was purposefully directed to keep the body down. [...]

[...] He has since realized at various times that the method has outlived its purpose—but the resulting feeling of helplessness has impeded his progress. [...]

[...] The deep portions of your own being are aware of those purposes and intents that are uniquely yours. [...]

[...] They may appear throughout your lifetime as recurring dreams of a certain nature — dreams of illumination; and even if you do not remember them you will awaken with your purposes strengthened or suddenly clear.

[...] The ego is concerned with purposeful action. However when the ego is too restrictive its conception of purposeful action becomes so narrow that many legitimate and necessary impulses are dammed up, forming these rejected action patterns.

[...] Whether or not you can achieve such purposeful visits at this time, I do not know. [...] You are further along than even I had imagined, and so it is possible that such purposeful visits are within your abilities now. [...]

In such experiments, when you attempt purposeful visits, then choose of course people with whom you are familiar and in rapport, so that if you materialize fully they will recognize you as a friend, and follow whatever instructions you are able to give them. [...]

[...] I saw myself from the right side, striding purposefully along with vigorous step, carrying over my right arm a neatly folded white towel. [...]

In time’s reference, the private purposes of each individual appear also in the larger historical context, so that each person forms his corner of his civilization—and all individuals within a given time period have private and overall purposes, challenges that are set, probable actions that they will try to place within history’s context.

I am quite sure — I know for a fact — that beings from other planes have appeared among you, sometimes on purpose and sometimes completely by accident. [...]

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness, straight from the entity, that all boundaries are for practical purposes only. [...]

[...] Any violence or hatred serves a purpose beyond itself, so that man in a way often performs services of which he is not consciously aware.

[...] But if there is order to being, then there is order—and even the most chaotic-seeming episodes must and do have a larger meaning, and a constructive purpose.

[...] Rick’s publication of The Early Sessions, then, is a very important advance in the marvelous journey of discovery that, I think, each one of us is inevitably involved in, that each one of us has chosen to create, in whatever way and for whatever purposes.

[...] To do what we’re supposed to do as well as what we want to do, to finally get it all just right for our individual purposes.

For there, you envision on the one hand the best possible book, content, production, et cetera; and as if to purposefully torment yourself, you also envision the opposing “gross practical product” that could possibly result—a product that would only mock by contrast the ideal that is also so vividly envisioned.

In a way with the book and with your art, your purpose is the expression of the ideal, and that expression must be physically materialized, obviously. [...]

As an artist alone your purpose is expression, which involves disclosure, the difference between the ideal and actual. [...]

[...] The bridge in our case will be a multidimensional one, serving therefore other purposes also. [...]

The practice with the language, and other practices that will be connected to it, will serve other purposes also. [...]

Think in terms of impressionism and its values, then switch to the idea of a Sumari language and see the connection, and the purposes that can be served. [...]

Please understand: I am not saying here that you have no conscious control over events, for they are formed by you in accordance with your feelings, beliefs, purposes, and intents.

[...] The final trigger for that actualization may come from the waking or dream states, but it will represent the final factor needed — the quickening of inspiration, desire, or purpose — that will suddenly activate the initial psychological organization as a physical occurrence.

[...] Your intent or purpose or belief is one of the main attractions. [...]

[...] He forgot, once again, that the creative self is aware of his entire life, and that his impulses have a creative purpose. [...]

[...] He is learning to use these techniques to keep his purpose in mind. [...]