“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If there were no purpose in the creation of physical matter, it would not exist and you would not perceive it. [...]

[...] Your have purposefully explored other systems as you explore this one.

[...] You use them more efficiently, and for the purposes of the inner self. [...]

[...] I believe my way of teaching to be the best one for our purposes. [...]

I will at some time go into the reasons why all of you chose that house and the flood situation, for it fit into your joint and private purposes. [...]

Prentice served your purposes for the same reason, and because of reincarnational contacts with Tam.

[...] On purposes you both agreed. [...]

The library, again, is important, and because of your joint participation and purpose. [...]

[...] If these concepts are understood, then the individual should realize the freedom he has to operate purposefully within the structure of physical life. [...]

(“I don’t mean to say by this that I think Seth and Jane are the same personality; rather, my feeling is that this acceleration connects portions of the same consciousness that are normally so diverse as to be two separate personalities for all practical purposes. [...]

In such a state he literally uses incredible power, in terms of energy, now; and the volume of the voice in many cases is an attempt to help him use some of this, and discharge it, while he learns how to use it, and until he is taught other purposes to which it can be put. [...]

He uses nervous connections in a way that is unusual, and to his purpose. [...]

[...] All of its infinite resources are placed at the disposal of your conscious mind, however, and for your conscious purposes.

[...] If the purpose of civilization is to enable the individual to live in peace, joy, security and abundance, then that idea has served him poorly.

[...] But you must not be concerned for their emergence, for this brings up the fear that the new ideas will not materialize, and so this negates your purpose.

[...] By such attitudes as these just mentioned you put clamps upon your inner self, purposely hamper your experience, and reinforce beliefs in the negative aspects of your being.

You are willing counterparts (see the 721st session) of each other, and have been in your terms before — each playing out “opposite” aspects of each other, yet merging for common purposes and goals.

[...] Your mother understood love’s purpose and felt its presence in Ruburt. [...]

[...] Yet for their own purposes they each chose to experience the other side of the coin, so to speak.

[...] This is all for now, but again, later, you will see where it relates, and how you can disperse your own characteristics into another and they can disperse theirs into you, with your consent and theirs, to form new aspects of reality and to cast new light on combined purposes and challenges.

Each of you need two 5-minute periods a day, at least, in which you purposefully relax mental and physical tensions through whatever methods you choose. [...]

[...] So those kinds of changes are in the air, so that many of the connections you have made in many areas will click together in another fashion, more beneficially, and more purposefully.

[...] In that view, it will be seen that all events work toward your purposes—when you realize that they do. [...]

[...] She repeated it as best she could: “....a closed, emotionally charged mental environment, in which the characteristics of individuality were purposefully undermined.” [...]

[...] You have a need to express your self—and I am repeating the word “express” quite purposefully (with a smile). [...]

[...] I will use my own definition of a cult here, saying that a cult exists whenever a group forms a closed, emotionally charged mental environment in which the foundations of individuality are systematically and purposefully undermined.

[...] You purposely chose a time involved in which writers and artists had it “hard”—so you cannot turn around then and blame the society. [...]

[...] Your “purpose” is to bring those diverse aspects together, to form them into your own kind of artistic production—to wed in your life and art those seemingly diverse qualities of spontaneity and order, spareness and abundance, beloved detail and wholeness, and to form in your life and art a new kind of synthesis.

[...] If you have a purpose and you want to achieve it badly enough, then everything else must be sacrificed for it—because “time marches on.” [...]

My purpose is not to come between you and your own freedom by giving you “answers,” even to the most tragic of problems. My purpose is to reinforce your own strength, for ultimately the magic of your being is well-equipped (?) to help you find fulfillment, understanding, exuberance, and peace.

[...] My purpose is not to solve your problems for you, but to put you in touch with your own power.

(11:15.) The healer’s purpose and function, however he or she operates, is to convince the patient that healing is not only possible but inevitable. [...]

[...] Here it is the purpose of this mental genetic code system to maintain such purpose and data. [...]

[...] The suggestions given in the material, the exercises in psychological time and so forth, are to be approached as you approached them, after a thorough knowledge of the material, and familiarity with the purposes behind the experiments.

[...] You have taken certain arbitrary points of beginning and departure for practical purposes, as for example the birth of a child used to be considered the actual entry of consciousness. [...]

[...] He told us again about a lawyer friend of his in Williamsport, who wanted to witness a session, and indeed was willing to make the long drive [about 200 miles round trip] solely for this purpose. [...]

Our work has given you additional purpose in life. [...]

Few are offered the opportunity to use abilities with which they have been honored, the opportunity to help others, and provided with a purpose in life in one full sweep. [...]

[...] They dealt with the physical world through the purposeful use of the imagination, however, in a way now most difficult to understand. [...]

[...] Such conditions also often involve events in which the individual senses a larger identification, however — even sometimes a renewed sense of purpose that makes no sense in ordinary terms.

His development began in your terms in such ancient times that for all intents and purposes you could say that in terms of value fulfillment he was so far advanced as to be alien entirely.

I have told you that there is much that I do not know, and for practical purposes there is much that is not known. [...]

Ultimately it is not self-generating, but for the purposes of our discussion it may be termed so. [...]

As emotional storms may be the result of a lack of discipline or of knowledge, or of control of one or more portions of the self, bringing about a corresponding exaggeration or growth of other portions of the self, so also erratic physical storms come from the same causes on a collective basis, but with the energy directed outward and often turned to a constructive purpose. [...]

Then I will speak briefly concerning Ruburt’s book of poetry, for this is an excellent example of how suggestion can be used to utilize energy for conscious purposes.

At the same time, because of Ruburt’s own purposes, they were perfectly preserved—not for instance attacked in any fashion, but in many ways isolated from the rest of bodily activity.

All of this incidentally involves the same amazing discrimination that is used in the organization of any physical symptoms, so that specific purposes are met.

[...] You have been aware of each other’s intents, feelings and purposes. [...]

The exteriorization has great purpose and meaning, then, and brings forth a different kind of expression. Though I may emphasize the importance of inner reality in this book, therefore, I am in no way denying the great validity and purpose of earthly experience. [...]

[...] They have more purposes than one. [...]

When science seems to betray you, in your society, it does so because its methods are unworthy of its intent — so unworthy and so out of line with science’s prime purpose that the methods themselves almost amount to an insidious antiscientific attitude that goes all unrecognized. The same applies to medicine, of course, when in its worthy purpose to save life, its methods often lead to quite unworthy experimentation (see Note 3 for Session 850), so that life is destroyed for the sake of saving, say, a greater number of lives. [...]

[...] The object seems to have a purpose or function connected with a desk. [...]

[...] When they are not fun, creative play, joyful wonder, then they will no longer serve their purpose. [...]