“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We will conclude our discussion concerning the nature of action, in so far as action is considered by itself. We will always be concerned with a discussion of action, even though other subjects are under consideration however, since it is impossible to divide action into various parts even for the purpose of discussion.

(“On a biological basis, impulses are like [or can be compared to] emotional instincts; individually tuned, so that ideally impulses are stimuli toward action—that results as a consequence of complicated inner ‘unconscious’ computations. [...]

[...] I said I thought it better that she did follow the impulse, though, since anything, any action, was probably better than sitting immobile.

[...] The call [which was action, a creative synthesis of your joint feelings], gave you information you didn’t have before—that The Voice [as an entity] knew of the Silence Gallery in a confused way. [...]

3. Sometimes one impulse will automatically lead to another action. [...]

He has been reading various sections of the material, including portions having to do with the ego, personality and action, and you see attempted to set himself aside from the action in which his whole personality was intimately involved. As impossible [to do] as the ego’s general attempt to insist upon some sort of permanent, unchanging, stable identity, since it is composed of action.

[...] The barriers to the energy have been let down, the action no longer impeded. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Whenever the ego gains overcontrol, or sets itself up to oppose deep and basic action within the whole personality, then in doing so it also blocks to some considerable extent the passage or use of the whole personality’s vital energy.

Suggestions are usually statements directed toward a particular action or hypothesis. [...]

(Long pause.) They are then handed over to the more automatic levels of personality, where they trigger the specific actions that are so strongly implied. [...]

[...] Each move that you make is not multiplied a million times, not simply multiplied, but it reaches out and changes and alters and affects these other realities and it becomes a new action. It becomes a new action as it approaches and reaches other realities, and it in turn initiates action. [...]

[...] This is not creative action, or productive action, as he is now with your help beginning to realize.

(9:13.) In deeper terms creativity springs from what could legitimately be called wasteful action (intently). [...]

[...] His physical difficulty has involved then his ideas of economical action—the cutting out of waste. [...]

(Today Jane looked and acted somewhat better, following our talks and actions yesterday. [...]

[...] I think that now I’ve learned — and hope to help teach Jane — that there’s nothing for it but to use one’s abilities full blast in every area — and that that resolve and action will conquer all and set her free — physically, creatively, and mentally.

In this case action forces change, and by the very nature of action no such duplications can occur. [...]

If you will consider the projection of a thought, that is intangible, so that it affects another individual, and hence both directly and indirectly affects the action of physical matter, then you may consider the possibility of other such projections. [...]

The world in those terms (pause) is as much the result of unpredictable behavior, unforeseen events, unexpected benefits, unforeseeable conditions, as it is the result of predictable actions, usual cause-and-effect phenomena (pause), and a close inspection of public and private life would show quite clearly that both are magnificently touched by significant coincidences. Unexpected events, unpredictable actions of the most auspicious nature. [...]

In that larger picture (underlined) there are no errors, for each action, pleasant or not, will (underlined) in its fashion be redeemed, both in relationship to itself and in relationship to a larger picture that the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive. [...]

[...] Knowledge, in other words, is action. There is of course such action taking place in these sessions.

[...] This follows the nature of action beautifully. [...]

[...] Emergency actions are quite rigorous in the immediate area of an earthquake, and aid is sent in from other countries. [...]

The body, responding to his thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, has much more data to deal with, therefore, and must have a clear area in which concise action is possible.

If, however, you dwell mentally in a generalized environment of fear, the body is given no clear line of action, allowed no appropriate response. [...]

[...] If mass action against appalling social or political conditions is not effective, then other means are taken, and these are often in the guise of epidemics or natural disasters. [...]

[...] It is given the impetus toward growth and action, and filled with the desire to impress its world.

[...] It denies man the practical use of those very elements that he needs as a biological creature: the feeling that he is at life’s center, that he can act safely in his environment, that he can trust himself, and that his being and his actions have meaning.

(9:44.) Impulses provide life’s guide to action. [...]

What protection, then, but to effectively project these outside of the self — impulses of good as well as evil — and hence effectively block organized action?

[...] Their effects may have surrounded you, or you may have switched beliefs in one particular area of your life; but each can be changed if you utilize the power of action in the present. [...]

Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed up by resulting action — conditioned behavior as it were — by which you continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience through natural hypnosis.

[...] You bring into action, physically speaking, those greater powers of your being, and trust certain chores to be taken care of at that vast unconscious level, instead of, as mentioned this evening (in the session proper) working at a trial-and-error basis,

[...] In the inner world you or the dog can walk through the door without effort, because desire is action. Desire is action.

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Now in your dream you got the feeling of that kind of work, or action. [...]

My dream of August 16 was difficult to visually present: How could I show my contact with Gus through the seemingly solid glass — show that, as Seth says, desire is action? [...]

[...] So his overt action also represents latent action of your own that you are not expressing because you have too much sense. [...]

[...] When you put the action of your mind in line with the knowledge I am giving you, you cannot help but solve your problems, because the solutions naturally arise.

[...] New comprehensions are available at any time, new breakthroughs in any area, for those realities contain the sources of your world’s action.

[...] If you attend the theatre at nine o’clock in the evening, but the actions of the play take place within the morning hours, and the actors are shown eating breakfast, you accept the time as given within the theatre’s play. [...]

[...] You therefore are forced to focus intensely upon the actions of the play. [...]

[...] It is not correct, therefore, to suppose that your actions in this life are caused by a previous existence, or that you are being punished in this life for crimes in a past one. [...]

[...] In them the multidimensional personality learns through its own actions. [...]

[...] The mere shaking of a hand may be perceived by you as a simple action. You are not consciously aware of the million small actions which make up this seemingly insignificant act.

These actions exist nevertheless. [...] Now this other portion of the self experiences these probable events, consciously, with as much rapidity as you subconsciously perceive the million small actions that make up the handshake.

[...] That energy means action, of course. [...]

[...] To the body, however, this is the kind of natural action it is always involved in, as it constantly rebuilds itself, maintains life, and it involves the body in work that it is indeed highly equipped to perform. [...]

[...] When you know that you are, you can save yourselves considerable periods of stress and strain, because you realize that you are not at the mercy of other people or of their actions. [...]