“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is not a case of one portion of the personality inflicting difficulties on other portions so much as you have a pattern of reactions to various forces in the personality—which to some extent end up serving certain purposes. [...]

[...] The creative work was expected not only to be creative, imaginative, intuitive, to contain the highest elements of conceptual thought, but must also be capable of solving the most concrete physical problem, tuned with some magical tuning fork so that it could serve almost any purpose required of it. [...]

[...] She has a complete record of her experience this morning in a notebook kept for such purposes.

None of us are ever equipped, for general purposes, to perceive reality in all of its forms. [...]

[...] Looking at your parents, you decided early that you would have a certain kind of relationship with a woman—a closeness that your father did not have with your mother—one that involved many facets of your own personality and with its purposes. [...]

[...] One purpose was met, then, when you married Ruburt. [...]

[...] You have indeed other forms that you do not perceive, and you also create various kinds of forms for various purposes, although you do not perceive these physically either.

Now: This is difficult to explain, and for our present purposes it is not entirely necessary that you understand the reasons for this pulsing; but even physically, you are “not here” as often as you are. [...]

[...] Often you can even catch yourself in the act of purposely dropping the memory of a dream. [...]

(Pause at 10:43.) Now often the ego acts as a dam, to hold back other perceptions — not because it was meant to, or because it is in the nature of an ego to behave in such a fashion, or even because it is a main function of an ego, but simply because you have been taught that the purpose of an ego is restrictive rather than expanding. [...]

You do exist consciously in a coherent, purposeful creative state while the physical body sleeps, however, and you carry on many of the activities that I told you would be encountered after death. [...]

As your daily endeavors have meaning and purpose, so do your dream adventures, and in these also you attain various goals of your own. [...]

[...] Certain leanings, inclinations, and probabilities are present then in your biological structure, to be triggered or not according to your purposes and intents. [...]

Ruburt’s love for Joseph, his own purposes, and his growing questions, along with his interest in painting in general, triggered exactly the kind of stimulus that broke through conventional beliefs about time and knowledge. [...]

[...] You imprint the universe with your own significance, and using that as a focus you draw from it, or attract, those events that fit your unique purposes and needs. [...]

[...] In a way the dreams that you recall are like numbered paintings, tailored to fit your own intents and purposes, fitting the contours of your mind so perfectly that you forget the larger experiences from which they were drawn.

Here we see purpose, strong intent, and despite the ins-and-outs with mood, and the youthful wandering, the same purpose to write, to express oneself, to observe, and to stand apart from the mainstream of American life.

Now I will indeed leave you, for all practical purposes; though I will be here, I will not speak again this evening.

Now I will indeed leave you, for all practical purposes; though I will be here, I will not speak again this evening. [...]

[...] It may occur, but those who indulge in violence are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated. [...]

[...] For purposes of analogy only, imagine that each subconscious layer is personified into a personality, who is then subjected to rendition of a dream or more, who watches a screen upon which the dream images flicker.

I will here suggest that the term “subconscious layer” has served its purpose, and in its place we will refer to “subconscious areas.”

[...] It acts out roles, but the whole self is entire, and every individual innately knows and is intimately familiar with the intents and purposes of the whole self. [...]

[...] He obtained subconscious information concerning your past life, the one symbol of the tub serving three purposes. [...]

[...] This of course would lead to the further question: To what purpose would such elongation serve, in which direction would it tend? [...]

[...] On this level, which also achieved its purpose, the water image was translated into a bag, or the bag of water that burst.

This arrangement, while rather a conglomeration, does help to serve a purpose that I mentioned last spring. [...]

[...] He began to purposefully bring about those mental conditions that were requested by these generations of mental progeny. [...]

[...] “It” sounds too neutral for my purpose, and I want to reserve the pronoun “she” for some later differentiations. [...]

[...] They were as agile as animals, their purpose simply to be. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt disloyal thinking of them because such thoughts seemed to him to criticize your joint life style and purposes.

[...] Here he was doing better than ever, with more money in the offing, and to what purpose? [...]

Your mother’s home would not have served your purposes, yours or Ruburt’s. I tell you that so that you realize you did not make a mistake.

[...] The creative writing class has served its purpose, provided you keep up your social life. [...]

My books are meant to give you some financial framework in which to operate in practical terms, besides their other purposes. [...]

—for you must go on in the way I have directed if you want to fulfill those abilities and purposes that you both have. [...]

[...] If you do not have too-rigid ideas of perfection, then ordinary denial serves a quite practical purpose. [...]

Now throughout this book I have purposely stayed away from the word “love,” because of various interpretations often placed upon it, and because of the errors frequently committed in its name.

[...] People who can ignore the physical evidence of wars and purposely think thoughts of peace will triumph — but in your terminology the word “meek” has come to mean spineless, inadequate, lacking energy. [...]

[...] The reasons, of course, vary from one individual to another, yet all involved “want their death to serve a purpose” beyond private concerns. [...]

The epidemics then serve many purposes — warning that certain conditions will not be tolerated. [...]

[...] The experience of the animals is different, yet in their own ways animals have both individual intent and purpose. [...]

[...] In this maze of beliefs you have largely lost a sense of your own worth and purpose. [...]

[...] It is impossible to meditate without a goal, for that intent is itself a purpose. [...]

[...] Yet your more educated beliefs lead you to an even more pessimistic picture, in which even the violent action of men and women who are driven to the extreme serves no purpose. [...]