“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His affectations are for the purpose of building up an image that he believes must be superior enough to be respected. [...]

[...] There is not just one line of development, but many—all under one direction however, and for one purpose.

([John:] “For what purpose? [...]

[...] Nor for our purposes should it be — for that vocabulary is limiting.

(The purpose of the gallery is to provide an outlet for painters, sculptors, and ceramacists to bring their work before the community. [...]

You may do what you wish yourselves (about taking the tests), of course, but our main purpose is to drive beyond psychology’s boundaries, and not play pussyfoot among the current psychological lilies of the field.

[...] He did not make this probability his own because of what you may call ‘other commitments’ — or rather, other purposes.

[...] He did not use his vitality in his manhood joyfully or fully or explosively, either in work, nor purpose, nor family. [...]

[...] You ignore the fact that [overall] the consciousness of animals has its own purposes and intents. [...]

Many animals enjoy work and purpose. [...]

[...] So are the wires, but for practical purposes we must behave as if both were there. [...]

The purpose of your present establishment was mainly to insure overall good psychic background. [...]

[...] Someone holding the fruit might be able to peel away the layers, but as for the fruit itself, the layers while making up the fruit are to all intents and purposes separate.

For reasons given much earlier, you both worried about the body mechanism in terms of childbirth, and it suited both of your purposes to minimize the possibilities in that direction, and to save yourselves from the monthly fear that a birth might have resulted.

[...] On the other hand he resents the slightest inconvenience that is not connected with his goals, and rises up vehemently against even the slightest restraint that he considers beside the board, or aside from your joint and individual purposes.

It involves the inner self, and the tissue capsule which also surrounds the physical camouflage body in a manner and for a purpose which I have briefly explained in an earlier session.

[...] For entirely different purposes, you see, you will be both committed to the same projects.

There are countless instances where “schizophrenic episodes” occur in otherwise normal personalities, where for learning purposes and periods of growth the personality sorts its parts out, and helps them enlarge their frameworks.

“First of all, however, a note primarily to Ruburt: I often quite purposefully (with amusement) break off book dictation to discuss other matters that come into your experience. [...]

(“The pendulum says my side started to bother me after I estimated $70,000 income for tax purposes for 1979, without seeing how Jane and I have any chance yet to bring in that much this year.” [...]

[...] If those particular circumstances had not occurred, then the next similar set of circumstances would have served the same purpose.

[...] And in your case you are learning to transform inner energy by forming it into physical constructions that the plane enables you to manipulate by the formation of particular outer senses for this purpose. [...]