“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Each has its purpose, though that purpose cannot be easily defined in your terms. Many people ask, for example: “What is the purpose of my life?” Meaning: “What am I meant to do?” but the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being (intently). That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.

[...] Of all of you, she has had the fewest inner experiences, so it would seem, yet she is forbidding her own purposes by being here. [...] And she fulfills a purpose in this class, and in this group, that is highly important, at the same time she is indeed fulfilling inner possibilities and opening roads. [...]

(To Rachel, Sally and Theodore:) Now, you also fulfill a purpose in the group, and still in coming to the group you also pursue your own purposes. [...]

If you believed you were unworthy because you were scrawny and bullied, then in some way you undoubtedly used that belief for your own purposes. [...] Discover what the purposes were. [...]

[...] They are not mysterious. You may find that many served good purposes at one time, and that they have simply been overemphasized. [...]

[...] Because you have not examined them, however, you may carry them long after they have served their purpose, and now they may work against you.

Many of your beliefs are of course cultural, but you have still accepted those that served your own purposes. [...]

The purpose is very important, for when the purpose is a good one then it unites the other images about you and your purpose beneficially. [...]

Those who try the exercises with wrong purposes will not succeed, for they will not have the proper equation, and it is the one part that cannot be given to them. [...]

I used the term “pass out of” the dream universe purposely, for here we see a mobility of action easily and often accomplished, a passing in and out that involves an action without movement in space. The dreamer is acquainted intimately, and has at his fingertips so to speak, a memory of his previous dream experiences, and carries within him the many inner individualistic purposes which are behind his dream actions.

[...] In the deep dream state the inner purposes are more involved. [...]

[...] Within your own universe you deal with the transformation of action into physical manipulations, but this involves but a small portion of the nature of action, and it is my purpose to familiarize you with action as it exists more or less in its pure form.

Now basically even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as general perception and experience is concerned, time and the physical growth development apply, so that we find the ego portion, particularly of the human personality, is to a large extent dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] What is not generally understood however, is that the seemingly chaotic experiences do have purpose. The state of your inner physical organism, viewed from another perspective, is a chaotic one, but it works to find purpose.

[...] Purposely plunge into them; go along with them as action, and they can refresh you.

It can even serve as a framework for creativity, for from these raw materials you can forge and direct energy for your own purposes. [...]

From the sound, the assaulting onrushing sound of traffic, if you listen you can emerge with the prize—perhaps an abstract, with the pulsating sounds transferred to rhythm and color; or perhaps again a portrait, here, of a compulsive personality, driven, and yet behind it all the purpose which is not easily seen, and the reason.

When you think of the purpose of your existence, you think in terms of daily waking life, but you also work at your purpose in these other dream dimensions, and you are then in communication with other portions of your own entity, at work at endeavors quite as valid as those you are about in waking life.

(9:30.) Now, there is a purpose in all this that will also be discussed later. [...]

[...] In subjective experience you leave behind physical existence and act, at times, with strong purpose and creative validity within dreams that you forget the instant you awaken.

[...] The illusion itself has a purpose and a meaning.

Now: you use words and their suggestive elements to reinforce and communicate your own purposes, beliefs, and intents. [...]

Both of you use suggestion individually and together to suit your purposes and your beliefs. [...]

[...] He went along, you see, for it suited his purposes also.

[...] Many people have such invisible areas, because it suits their purposes.

To be an overnight financial sensation, however, would present a reality that does not fit into your joint plans and purposes. [...] Your purposes and the purposes of the three publishers all mix and merge, with unconscious knowledge of the importance of the books, and the ways in which they are to be presented—not that there won’t also be some “natural” misunderstandings here and there, also.

[...] There is a great difference between keeping the people always in mind, and playing to the crowd for whatever reasons, but there would be a tendency for purposes to be altered.

[...] The two Bantam sales, for example, Material and Seth Speaks, served purposes for you and Ruburt, and Prentice as well.

[...] In such cases the illness serves a purpose. [...]

Now I understand that to one closely and daily involved with the woman, it is difficult to see purpose or reason in the condition. [...]

[...] Remember, the purpose is therapeutic, though it may not appear so. [...]

[...] No doctor in your plane or mine, can relieve an individual of symptoms if the symptoms are serving a valid purpose to the inner self; or, in relieving particular symptoms, others will arise.

Survival, of course, is important, but it is not the prime purpose of a species, in that it is a necessary means by which that species can attain its main goals. Of course [a species] must survive to do so, but it will, however, purposefully avoid survival if the conditions are not practically favorable to maintain the quality of life or existence that is considered basic.

Religious, scientific, medical, and cultural communications stress the existence of danger, minimize the purpose of the species or of any individual member of it, or see mankind as the one erratic, half-insane member of an otherwise orderly realm of nature. [...]

He did therefore develop a strong conscientious self, so that these abilities would be put to good purposes, and not frittered away. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, the point has now been reached where he does realize that the basic self is good, and the abilities are being put to good purpose. [...]

[...] He was a great leader, driven by the desire for power, and by a sense of purpose, in the Ottoman Empire. [...]

[...] His sense of energy was boundless, and he was convinced of his purpose. [...]

[...] It is purposeful, highly discriminating, performed by the inner conscious ego of which the exterior ego is but a shadow—and not, you see, the other way around. [...] It is the product of an inner consciousness with far more sense of identity and purpose than the daily ego. [...]

[...] Your dreams, thoughts, and emotions are literally transformed into physical matter purposefully by this inner self.

Throughout the ages, some have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness and purpose in certain dream and sleep states, and have maintained, even in waking life, the sense of continuity of this inner self. [...]

I did not come through purposely lately because I do not want you to take it for granted that I will speak at each class. [...] And when I speak at class, as I have told you often, I have a purpose. And my purpose is to remind you that the vitality and meaning of existence is within you. [...]

[...] There is purpose in all things. [...]

There is a purpose for each one of you. It is your own purpose and it is up to you to fulfill it, and it necessitates the full use of all your abilities—your mental abilities—and your intuitional abilities. [...]

You (Vera) are serving a purpose that you still do not understand. And a good purpose. [...]

My purpose was to be here, and to say what I must say. [...]

(4:42.) I am not saying that the events in one life cause the events in another, but that there is an overall pattern — a bank of probable events — and that in each life each individual chooses those that suit his or her overall private purposes. [...]

[...] The reasons and purposes for one’s own existence in any life can be found directly in the life itself.

[...] Main purpose was with you for you had been mother. [...]

[...] Boy’s first love and purpose involved you. [...]

[...] There are personalities who come together for certain reasons, varying reasons, whose individual inclinations are somewhat the same, and purposes. [...] In their own way, and according to their capacity and purpose, they change and alter the nature of the universe, sometimes by being born within your historical time, and sometimes by trying to reach those who are within your historical time. [...] It is a membership of choice, in other words, of attraction and respect, and usually this is bound by like purpose and endeavor. [...]

(Here she had gone into an extended trance state that lasted, for all purposes, for the rest of the evening. [...]

[...] It is an instant recognition of brotherhood and unity of purpose, and in a strange manner, overall, of temperament.

[...] Now, I am using that term purposely.

[...] This elementary telepathy is not the communication of thought as such, but is the communication of intent, desire and purpose. [...]

[...] For another, I did not want to discuss such points until I had first prepared you for not only their existence, but their purpose and logic.

You can perhaps now see where this so-called astral body has its origin and purpose. [...]

[...] When inner energy desires to construct a more complicated gestalt, then it must telepathically communicate this intent and purpose through the matter which it collects about itself, forming a more complicated inner telepathic pattern first, that can then be filled in with physical matter. [...]

The cataloging of separate races simply involves you in organizations of variances played upon a common theme—variances that you have used for various purposes. Often those purposes led you to overexaggerate the differences between groups, and to minimize man’s biological unity.

Science seems to be of the opinion that the individual is important only insofar as (louder:) he or she serves the purposes of the species’ survival—and I am not saying that. [...]

[...] Some people will choose “defective” bodies purposely in order to focus more intensely in other areas. [...]

[...] Given the genetic makeup that you now have, your conscious intents and purposes act as the triggers that activate whatever genetic or reincarnational aspects that you need.