“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Certain personality characteristics are exaggerated quite purposefully by the creative personality, to act as a lens to intensify experience.

[...] The trouble is that when the early environmental conditions, which helped set up the episode, ceased operating strongly, the pattern of behavior was set, and used then for other psychological purposes as noted. [...]

[...] Physically, intent or purpose forms that center, regardless of its reality in terms of energy.

She had one son, then a hysterectomy, on purpose. [...]

[...] The emotional blockage sets up barriers however whose main purpose is to protect the individual from anything that he considers at all unsafe or threatening, or simply unpleasant.

[...] (Pause at 10:10.) He seems to be in a dissociated state, but whether or not it was produced purposely I do not know.

[...] Nevertheless, the class sessions serve an important purpose. [...]

[...] The beliefs of the conscious mind, however, set your goals and purposes. [...]

[...] During the many centuries of our remembered history, those conflicts in themselves have been — and are — surely serving at least one of consciousness’s overall purposes, within our limits of understanding: to know itself more fully in those particular, differentiated ways.

This is an excellent time to try the library together, to lie down on purpose to try out-of-bodies, or psy-time. [...]

(10:28.) This purpose or meaning does not exist apart from your own existence, however. You are a part of life’s meaning and purpose—but those purposes, “coming from” (long pause), coming from the source of your own being, are too great to be expressed or described within the structure of your personhood as you understand it. [...]

[...] Each portion of all such life clouds seeks value fulfillment, again, but that term itself is woefully inadequate to express the nature of life’s diversity, purpose, or meaning.¹⁵

[...] Seth may think that his own term, “value fulfillment,” “is woefully inadequate to express the nature of life’s diversity, purpose, or meaning,” but over two years ago, in Chapter 2 of Dreams, he gave what I think is an excellent interpretation of that quality. [...]

[...] She wants a turning-off point from which to construct other realities, so it is not so much that the latest-present is deteriorating as much as the fact that she is purposely letting her attention wander, and allowing the latest-presents (with the hyphen) to diminish in strength and vitality. [...]

The brain, because of its purpose and its close connection to camouflage manipulation, does not have a primary existence within the electrical universe, although it has a secondary existence within it because of its connection to the purely electrical mind.

The room is too hot for our purposes.

I have come for one purpose, so that you could sense my vitality and sensing this, know that I speak to you from dimensions beyond those with which you are acquainted. [...]

[...] Florence actively fights against any suggestions, and I purposely gave none. [...]

[...] There is always a purpose behind what I say and behind what I do. [...]

As I mentioned, a desire that is fitting to your nature automatically in Framework 2 collects all of the resources necessary to bring about its fulfillment in Framework 1. Because the desire is one fitting to an individual nature, it is also fitting in with the overall purposes of nature in general, so that the desire also attracts the limitless resources that are behind nature’s own majesty and power.

[...] You would still like to believe in the importance of suggestion and telepathy, but only when it suits your purposes, and to minimize it in those areas that are somewhat touchy.

In an ideal society, each brain wave would be utilized purposefully. [...]

I would like here to discuss a fact about which we have spoken briefly in the past; that is, that the inner world cannot be examined with the outer senses, that indeed the main purpose of the outer senses is the interpretation of the outer or camouflage existence.

A study or investigation of inner reality was not the purpose of the intellect. [...]

[...] Not only do you have lack of privacy, one of Ruburt’s squawks, and not only should various biological functions be separated on your plane as I have suggested, but the room itself, while excellent for some purposes involving use of the intellect, is simply not good for sleeping.

[...] However it is also the best for your working purposes, Joseph. [...]

(The article led me to wonder why we behaved as we did, as a species, with seemingly little change throughout recorded history; I wondered what purposes, what real sense, lay behind our attitudes and actions, etc; Jane and I had a little discussion about it.