“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It would perhaps have been more convenient if the effort had been started on other than a session night, but in any case I expect to see the endeavor succeed, and certainly do not mind missing a session for this purpose.

[...] In the same way diseases in their fashion are also often parts of larger processes whose greater purpose is the body’s overall balance and (long pause) strength.

It seldom occurs to you that you might be fulfilling your purposes quite beautifully despite all of your convictions—for they are indeed convictions—that you are not doing so, or that in some way or another each of you should be different in important ways than you are.

[...] Before that, however, he purposefully decided to exercise—hence the stairway. [...]

[...] Strength, purpose, talent and inclination you have on your side. [...]

First of all, it is important to realize that Ruburt’s unconscious, so called, is not working against him on purpose, sabotaging his projects. [...]

Tell the subconscious that you understand its purposes, and thank it for its concern. [...]

There were certain beliefs of yours together, again, that once served a purpose. [...]

He kept it to protect himself and to protect you, artistically and economically, so that for example you would not have a child to support or to turn you from your lone purpose. [...]

[...] Others were not, for both of your reasons, because the situation served both of your purposes to some extent.

[...] Bringing such matters to the surface serves many more purposes than is apparent, therefore. [...]

[...] Mass religious movements have for centuries fulfilled that purpose, in giving man some plan to be followed. It little mattered that later the plan was seen as a child’s primer, a book of instructions complete with colorful tales, for the main purpose was served and there was little disorientation.

You may find it helpful, and certainly fascinating, to study your own dreams, looking at them for the purpose of searching in their framework for abilities of which the ego is not aware.

[...] You may not think of your artistic abilities as serving any practical purpose, insofar as survival is concerned, and yet they have been your main security, and in very practical ways.

My first purpose, therefore, is to make you aware of the inner identity of which you are part, and to clear away some of the intellectual and superstitious debris that prevents you from recognizing your own potentialities and freedom. [...]

[...] The controls served many purposes. [...]

So far, metaphysics has only been entertainment, a step-science of our culture; part of the extended family of science for the purposes of inspiration and ideas, but not given credit as scientific truth. [...]

“Camouflage” became a familiar word to us in those early sessions, and we thought it an excellent one for Seth’s purposes — but rather oddly, except for using it once in a while in recent years, he’s largely dropped it from his vocabulary.

1. I can note a good deal later that Seth’s material on our making further distinctions in the families of consciousness, beyond the nine he’s already named for us, is certainly related to the passages from a private session that I quoted in the last three paragraphs of Note 8 for the 732nd session: Seth stated that Peter Smith and I “are and are not counterparts” — that with another in this life each of us may often come together, then part, “forming a counterpart relationship when it suits your purposes….”

[...] The varieties of tones, for all intents and purposes, are infinite.

[...] The quick actions involved in both laughing and crying also quicken circulation, and actually dislodge body “poisons”—natural toxins or elements that have served good purposes biologically, and are harmful only if they are then retained.

Please note that in a few instances, page numbers are mentioned in the text for the purpose of cross-referencing material. [...]

These plays are hardly without purpose. [...]

The purpose of any given life is available to you, the knowledge beneath the surface of the conscious self you know. [...]

These cannot be recounted, again, in one evening; nor would such a performance serve any purpose at this time; listed, so to speak. [...]

[...] It will depend upon the strength of the purpose that an illness serves. [...]