“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is purposeful, highly (underlined) discriminating, performed by the inner conscious ego, of which the exterior ego is but a shadow, and not you see the other way around. [...]

[...] It is the product of an inner consciousness with far more sense of identity and purpose than the daily ego. [...]

[...] Your dreams, emotions, feelings, thoughts, are (underlined) transformed into physical matter purposefully by this inner self. [...]

Throughout the ages some have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness and purpose in certain dream and sleep states, and have maintained, even in waking life, the sense of continuity of this inner self. [...]

[...] A personality then, starting out with one main purpose, may find itself involved in experience that opens new areas, and it may pursue them. [...]

[...] One personality may also form for his own purposes a time system of his own, as a man might make a path to his own garden.

[...] The purpose for which they were constructed, in your terms, no longer exists. [...]

The game however is for a purpose. [...]

(10:09.) On quite a different level, riots often serve the same purpose, where the release of energy, for whatever reasons, introduces a group of individuals to the intimate recognition that highly concentrated vitality exists. [...]

[...] You will react individually with your own purposes in mind. [...]

[...] Women who had no stronger purpose than playing bridge ended up struggling for survival beside their more destitute sisters. [...]

There were old people, laden with negative beliefs about age, who discovered great vitality and further purpose under the stimuli of survival. [...]

[...] Certain scientific treatises often make you believe that the attainment of your adulthood has little purpose, except to insure the further existence of the species through parenthood — when nature is then quite willing to dispense with your services. You are quite simply told that you have no other purpose.³ The species itself must then appear to have no reason except a mindless determination to exist. The religions do insist that man has a purpose, yet in their own confusion they often speak as if that purpose must be achieved by denying the physical body in which man has his life’s existence, or by “rising above” “gross, blunted,” earthly characteristics. [...]

[...] Often, however, individuals use disasters quite for their own purposes, as an exteriorized force that brings their lives into clear focus. [...]

[...] Both man’s and nature’s purposes are served, then, though generally speaking man’s myths make him blind to those interactions. [...]

I hesitate in many instances to say what I might, because it is so easy to misinterpret meanings; but when you ask what is the purpose of consciousness you take it for granted there must be one purpose — where the greater truth and creativity must be that consciousness itself cannot be aware of all of its own purposes, but ever discovers its own nature through its own manifestations.

[...] The life came from All That Is, from the spirit of life itself, and was freely given — to be taken away by no one, or threatened by no one or no force, until that life fulfills its own purposes and decides to travel on.

[...] Such people are so frightened of the nature of personal power and energy that they short-circuit their nervous systems, blocking the ability for any purposeful action, at least momentarily.

[...] These persons, however, again, are living at cross purposes. [...]

Each person’s purposes are so unique and individualistic that it is quite improper to try to make any judgments in such matters. [...]

[...] Regardless of the circumstances, no one should judge such cases, for regardless of the way such a man might die, it would be because the thrust and intent and purpose of his life was no longer in physical reality.

[...] To mix your purposes with the conventional family life would have been most difficult, so you chose situations that left you free until you met—that is, of property, children, or important ties.

You were gifted enough so that you would not starve in the marketplace (humorously)—and yet your gifts were also those that would fit in with your overall purposes of obtaining knowledge of the inner workings of nature, and the psyche. [...]

[...] To some extent it can never be captured, but we shall capture enough of it for our purposes. [...]

You will learn to take a certain portion of purpose with you through suggestion, so that you can attempt to enlarge the dream space of which you are first aware. [...]

You have what you may think of then as a split action, where one portion of the self, the inner ego, is allowed to travel through the other states of action that compose the whole self, purposefully as a director, and retain the knowledge thereby received.

[...] As entireties—I use the phrase purposely—however, you respond to many influences that may or may not result in a session.

[...] You cannot manipulate events for egotistical purposes. You can manipulate events and you can manipulate them for your own egotistical purposes; but when you do so, you give yourself a traffic ticket. [...]

You have been afraid that the male would hurt you cruelly—and on purpose, and at the same time, you have endowed him with godlike qualities, and, therefore, demanded more than any man could possibly deliver. [...] Now you have on occasion been cruel to men you have known rather purposely, intending to hurt them before you could be hurt. [...]

[...] And his purposes and your purposes to this point have fit together beautifully, for neither of you have seen the other. [...]

[...] Much that you know you have made a part of your life, but you still wish to use your knowledge for your own conscious purposes. [...]

[...] I then stepped back, still retaining immediacy, reported—and purposefully became less involved. [...]

(8:54.) The intellect, then, helps your species translate its own natural purposes and intents — the purposes and intents of the natural person — into their “proper” cultural context, so that those abilities the natural person possesses can benefit the civilization of its time. Those purposes and intents literally change the world. [...]

[...] The sense of form incidentally will, mark my words, emerge in a new way for you, but even the information given that so upset you had its purpose in your whole plan.

[...] One of your purposes has been to express just that.

There are all kinds of other issues involved in which you and Ruburt acquiesced, and for your individual and joint purposes. [...]

[...] What the entity does however it does consciously and with purpose, since it is by definition beneath consciousness, and without consciousness there is no purpose.

[...] These powers to project realities of this sort, or pseudorealities of this sort, are meant to be suspended for all intents and purposes during the earth plane. [...]

Now all of this correlates ever since we began the experiment, and you do indeed have a purpose this evening. [...]

[...] (Emphasizes every word.) And I want you to sense that identity that is your own and the purposes that are yours, the joy that is a part of your being. [...]

[...] However it does not serve any good purpose for me to knock Ruburt’s knuckles when an error of this kind is made. [...] They were strong positive suggestions and as such they do sometimes serve a good purpose. [...]

[...] One of the basic purposes of existence on your plane is to enable the personality to focus powerfully and to form basic vitality into creative pattern. [...]

[...] One of my purposes is to enable you not only to recognize but experience this independent reality, and again the use of psychological time in a correct manner will be an invaluable aid.

[...] One of your purposes as I have said is to learn to organize energy units and to focus your own energy along those lines. [...]

[...] Some people within the tribe specialized in such dreams, and again, dream content was and is directed by the individual intents, purposes and interests of the dreamer. [...] Or he might be given knowledge as to how the herbs could best be used for healing purposes. [...]

[...] You will organize the contents of your mind and the information available to you according to your own intents and purposes.

It provides for the deepest spontaneous expression of the subconscious, gives the ego a directive and sense of purpose, and develops the overall abilities of the personality, which in the past were completely denied, for lack of training and out of fear. [...]

[...] But it purposefully distorted the idea image so grotesquely that it knew it could not be maintained. [...]

[...] The symptoms therefore were therapeutic in nature, in that their purpose was the solving of the dilemma.

[...] At the same time larger amounts of energy will be restored for the personality’s beneficial purposes. [...]

[...] Two purposes in the main were served. [...]

[...] Beside other considerations you feel, subconsciously again, that you still serve your mother’s purposes: art for money, and that therefore your initial act of defiance and independence is not complete.

[...] I am not saying, in other words, that suffering necessarily leads to spiritual fulfillment, nor that all illness is accepted or chosen for such a purpose, for this is not the case.

Groups of individuals come together in various lives for certain purposes, separate, and may or may not come together again in a different time or place. [...]

Jointly, each generation has its own purpose. [...]