“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Children often frighten themselves on purpose through games, knowing the game’s framework all the time. [...] Dreams often serve the same purpose. [...]

[...] It is only because your own viewpoint is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and the mode and the purpose of existence.

[...] Yours is simply not one that I have pursued, and one of the purposes of my appearance at these sessions is to acquaint the one you call Ruburt with inner travel, for he must leave the system as you know it, and in doing so set up habits and paths that can be used to advantage.

(When she could finally talk Jane revealed that she had been experiencing a concept to accompany the personality’s words; this she has done before when speaking for Seth’s entity, and we have been told before that this is one of the reasons or purposes for her speaking for this new personality. [...]

[...] This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

[...] Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. [...]

[...] Your individual purposes are not the same so you will manage your body experiences in a great variety of ways.

I mentioned before that some people court exciting and dangerous sports, living quite purposefully on the edge of death, and choosing to taste life spiced exotically by the ever-present sprinkling of ashes. [...]

He was looking for someone like the young boy, someone whose actions would result in his death, but in a death without malice, a death that would in its way serve an important purpose. [...]

[...] You purposefully, while speaking to your times, speak to those beyond your times and to the future. [...]

[...] The excitement involved in the chase is important, and the energy, the vital energy used is being directed away from its proper purpose.

The proper purpose should be the development of the self, and the development of abilities, and it is to elude this responsibility that the chase was originated. [...]

[...] Originally they had a purpose. [...]

Within a very short time now the two will be joining full energy, with fresh purpose. [...]

[...] Either the individual no longer trusts the purpose toward which his energy is being expended, or perhaps worse, he feels that there is no reason, or that he has no purpose, and does not know in which direction to turn his energy.

[...] Almost the same kinds of fluctuations and stages occur even when you are waking, however, though you are even less aware of them because then the egotistical self acts quite purposefully to blanket out these other areas of experience.

The purpose of the Speakers is to help you correlate and understand this multidimensional existence, and to bring as much as possible of it to your conscious attention. [...]

He does have a purpose, that is one of several courses that he can follow, that will enable him to fulfill the purpose, which is his during this existence. [...]

[...] Each person, simply by being, fits into the universe and into universal purposes in a way no one else can. [...]

[...] Ruburt feared that it might be taking you from your one true purpose as a painter. [...]

[...] The sessions and their attendant results provide, literally, a multidimensional purpose that allows for your own gestalt individual achievements.

[...] While you smile at me, you still think that you must protect yourself against distractions, as if they are purposely lined up like enemies against you. [...]

[...] Yet through all of these changes the earth retains a landscape, and at any given time the features of the land are quite dependable and permanent enough for your purposes.

[...] Some of the exercises to be given in this section will be geared to that purpose.

[...] The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes, the tree is conscious of 50 years before its existence, and 50 years hence. [...]

(Long pause.) If the “earthling” spoke, the alien would of course instantly know that you were communicating creatures, and in the vocal sounds recognize patterns that contained purpose and intent. [...]

The body’s main purpose is not only to survive but to maintain a quality of existence at certain levels, and that quality itself promotes health and fulfillment. [...]

[...] This context is the result of personal and mass beliefs that are intertwined at all cultural levels, and so to that extent serve private and public purposes.

[...] Now Anita Bryant serves a purpose for all of her distortions, for she presents each person with an exaggerated picture of certain beliefs. [...] So even the fanatic serves good purposes. [...]

(Seth:) Since there are no physical universities, and since I threw out those statements with my own purposes in mind, then it follows that those who are interested must find their own way; and that their imagination and will must drive them to find their own methods. [...]

[...] For the purposes of this particular chapter, we will discuss illnesses or situations that have arisen since childhood, so we are not including birth defects or very early life-endangering childhood accidents, or most unfortunate childhood family situations. [...]

[...] Someday that material may be transcribed and used, for some as-yet-unknown purpose.

[...] To all effects and purposes such an action becomes a different one, while in actuality it is the same.

These therefore for all intents and purposes close ranks, encompassing the three systems and accepting no further additions at this given time. [...]

(Long pause.) The purposes and value fulfillment intents of some people are often reached in your terms at a young age. [...]

[...] The desire actually works for the purpose of value fulfillment, whether it can be pursued more fully in this life, or whether it is time to begin a new one. [...]

[...] But the idea is that it is safe to express himself, and that the true purpose of his life is indeed to express those characteristics that compose his personal reality.

He is to realize that if he has any duty or purpose in life, it is indeed to express those very abilities (all very emphatically), since those abilities are so natural in his makeup, they also possess their own protective mechanisms. [...]

For some time you have all been searching, and I hope to show you how to ask the proper questions; for in the questions you will find the answers, and in the answers you shall be yourselves; and knowing yourselves fulfill your purpose and expand the limitations of your own consciousness until you can search out the past and the present and see yourselves as you are, and know that you are more than you think you are, and fulfill those abilities which you have partially developed in past lives. [...]

[...] The personality in the past used psychic abilities for the wrong purposes. [...]