“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Under different conditions, an electric storm can be beneficial to our purposes. [...]

There is a short-circuiting process in which even good intentions are distorted and turned to other purposes. [...]

[...] They are the directions that provide life with purpose, direction, and impetus. [...]

[...] And as the progress improves old bodily habits are also disrupted, and serve their purposes no longer. [...]

I want you (speaking to me) to purposely liberate more of your own exuberance. [...]

[...] You have a natural immunity against all thoughts that do not fit in with your own purposes and beliefs, and naturally (pause, groping), you are “inoculated” with a wholesome trust and belief in your own thoughts above others. [...]

[...] They serve other functions, they have other purposes, they take part in life through a different cast of action. [...]

One of the intellect’s main purposes is to give you a conscious choice in a world of probabilities. [...]

[...] His purpose in this case is quite clear and simple: He is to help Augustus One, to use his power on the latter’s behalf, rewarding his friends and terrifying his enemies. [...]

[...] He knew that gradually Augustus Two was outliving his purpose, showing him up, and had to go.

Now it seems that my own purposes in preparing these volumes were too gargantuan to ever accomplish more than partially. [...]

Yet we think now that such extensive notes have served their purposes for Seth’s material, at least for some time, so those books-in-the-works will carry minimum notes — as they do, say, in Seth Speaks. For one thing, as I write this Epilogue, Seth has finished The Nature of the Psyche, and has already begun still another book. [...]

[...] I say intact, for to all purposes this is so. [...]

[...] As it developed we did not ask Seth for specific information on the impressions, so I do not know whether they were merely too far-ranging for our purposes, or simply errors. [...]

[...] That theater then will serve many purposes, even as each of you are exquisite performers, and have chosen the roles and beliefs that you have taken….

[...] I wasn’t drifting, looking for a sense of purpose, for example. [...]

[...] “Besides, what purpose would he have? [...]

Seth had a purpose, all right: to deliver the material he’s been giving us twice a week, now, like clockwork for the past five years. [...]

[...] Even the mental enzymes themselves are interchangeable, as far as the principle behind them is concerned, though for practical purposes they maintain separate and distinct qualities in their materializations in one plane.

They do, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident. [...]

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness that all boundaries are for practical purposes only … There are many kinds of science, however, besides your own. [...]

[...] Those beliefs had indeed been like old good friends—only they had outgrown their purpose, and no longer apply. [...]

[...] In so doing he quite purposefully detached himself, in your terms now, from the body of his planet in a new way. [...]

[...] They fulfill purposes for you that you may believe you can achieve in no other way. [...]

[...] Some centuries ago, to develop your particular kind of consciousness, the race separated nature from the self for operating purposes. [...]

[...] The plant (acanthus) was used for spices and other purposes for some centuries in that part of the world.

[...] It would seem to you as if there would be gaps between the fluctuations, and the description I have used is the best one for our purposes; but the probable systems all exist simultaneously, and basically, following this discussion, the atom is in all these other systems at one time.

In other positions it is the ego and intellect that suffer most, and since our purpose is to enlighten them as much as possible, this is not to our advantage.

[...] Your room, the bedroom, is a good color for this purpose. [...]