“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Definitely some freedoms must be achieved to compensate for the freedoms that the house would have provided.

A psychic openness is difficult to achieve certainly, and yet it will greatly progress your work. [...]

You will find that the sort of focus, the particularized focus achieved in the free contemplation and enjoyment of nature, is a welcome change from the dissociated focus aimed at to some degree in psychic pursuits. [...]

[...] The pity of the world’s present situation is that the methods people use often to achieve their desires, are those specific methods that will bring them the opposite.

[...] You have within you a readymade method of achieving desire: positive visualization, positive imagination, and confidence.

Negative visualization, negative imagination, and the feeling that the result will not be achieved, leads to the opposite of your desire. [...]

[...] He fails often to achieve the goals, or even to understand how his very methods prevent their attainment.

To some extent, these are all unique and creative ponderings that on the part of the animals alone would be considered the most curious and enlightening intellectual achievements. [...]

(10:01.) When he is destructive, man does not seek to be destructive per se; but in a desire to achieve that which he thinks of as a particular goal that to him is good, he forgets to examine the goodness of his methods.

When you are considering the future in your terms, constructive achievements are as realistic as destructive ones. [...]

They do achieve value fulfillment, however, and within the limits set by their own abilities they also perform the duties of construction. [...]

This is the material without which no deep understanding could ever be achieved. [...]

It still, however, merely represents the base point of achievement, a necessary first step along the way. [...]

[...] 7/17, 9:00 PM: Halfway through achieving the desired state, I began to get the familiar thrilling sensation in my hands. [...]

[...] But all of you do hope for illumination, greater vitality and understanding in one way or another, and wonder what methods might help you achieve these ends. [...]

3. In Buddhism, nirvana — a state of heavenly perfection — is achieved by the extinction of individual life and the soul’s absorption into the supreme spirit.

[...] No matter how much power he achieved, it seemed to him that others had more — other people, other groups, other countries — but their power he saw as evil. [...]

[...] And again, since the idealized good seemed too remote and difficult to achieve, any means was justified. [...]

(“As you learn to trust your natural impulses, they introduce you to your individual sense of power, so that you realize that your own actions do have meaning, that you do affect events, and that you can see some definite signs that you are achieving good ends. [...]

[...] I soon achieved a feeling of elevation and pulsation in my left side, including my left hand and foot. [...] I believe I might have achieved more, but was interrupted by the singing of a mosquito in my ear.

[...] 8/12, 8:12 PM, I made an attempt at contemplation while sitting up but did not achieve anything beyond a slight sensation in my left hand.

(Jane has also been trying contemplation, and has observed the beginnings of a few achievements, after a long period without success in psychological time.

[...] Some loving, gentle but firm encouragement and practice on the stairs would be of help, and definitely a concentration upon achievements in any area rather than on failures.

[...] And in your own daily activities, in your playful moments, you can almost achieve the freedoms that the inner self knows. And in your most serious moments, you can almost achieve the freedom that the inner self knows. But in your mundane moments, you will not achieve it. And when you half try, you will not achieve it. [...]

[...] When you operate within it you should indeed experience it completely, in as many phases as possible, and be it to a much greater degree than is usually achieved, the conscious mind using itself then in experience, and thus knowing itself. [...]

[...] In this way our whole selves achieve a freedom.

[...] His weaknesses were out in the open, dramatically presented, and from that point, unless he chose death he could only go forward: for suddenly he felt that there was after all some (underlined) room to move, that achievements were possible, where before all achievements seemed beside the point in the face of his expected superhuman activity. [...]

Your achievements, singly and together, have not brought you the joy they should, because you think indeed that your achievements should lie elsewhere—or that, in the face of the selves you think you should be, your realized selves are almost shoddy versions. [...]

[...] You have, far more than you realize, utilized our ideas in your daily lives, both to insure financial comfort—but more, to achieve the satisfaction that you are indeed reaching others, helping to change their lives for the better. [...]

(Pause.) The achievements therefore must be kept in mind; not only are they not focused upon, but they are often forgotten. [...] Reminding Ruburt of these achievements, of the things he does right, will put some weight on him. [...]

[...] Yet both of you should realize that those failures still give you an overall performance that few people can achieve, in terms of the quality and overall endurance.

With the attitude that he had, he would never achieve it.

[...] So-called Mongoloid children, for example, are reminders of man’s purely emotional heritage, as separate from his intellectual achievements. [...]

[...] We will hope to show man’s origin as existing in an inner environment, and emphasize the importance of dreams in “evolutionary advancement,” and as the main origin of man’s most creative achievements.

Those who struggled and did not achieve fame for example, will sometimes recreate their past, manipulate hallucinatory relationships and events and achieve it within that counterfeit environment. [...]

You will be merely doing what you have been doing all along, but with the aid of the ego you will be able to prove the extent of your achievement. [...] In our experiments therefore, we will have to begin with a strong belief that what we are setting out to achieve can in fact be achieved.

[...] Without the idea you have no physical reality, and without belief that our aims are possible, there will be no achievement. The achievement gained, however, will then provide its own physical proofs.

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session as the time for it approached, although she said her arms felt a “little light” from the state she had achieved at 8:15 and later. [...]

[...] We shall achieve important progress this year, I hope, in getting more material through the censorships. [...]

(December 29, Tuesday, 11:30 AM: Achieved a terrific sense of well-being, of suspension and lightness. [...]

(We’d achieved some good success with our mutual pendulum suggestions for Jane, twice daily, over the past several weeks. [...] In spite of what we had achieved there, she wasn’t walking better yet, etc.

[...] Passé ideas, that do not belong with the level of awareness that you are achieving.

You cannot of course perform such an achievement yet, but I hope that one day we may attain it. [...]

As for another advancement you have made, beside dispensing with the material board—and this advancement has to do with the so-called flashes that Ruburt has received between sessions—he has achieved a state in which he can receive inner data from me more readily. [...]

[...] The inner senses provided him with much, but nevertheless the ideas contained represented an achievement of the conscious mind. [...]

You, Joseph, were necessary, but we had to have this particular sort of intuitive intellect that could also deal expertly with words before we could actually begin; and it took Ruburt a long time to achieve this state because his conscious problems, and family relations and preoccupation with them, held him back.

[...] And in your own daily activities, in your playful moments, serious moments, you can almost achieve the freedom that the inner self knows. But in your mundane moments, you will not achieve it. And when you half try, you will not achieve it.