“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This is a challenge more than worth the effort. It is a challenge that I hope each reader will accept. [...]

[...] Now these challenges, in a so-called past life, you have set for yourself. [...]

([Joel:] “Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality in our terms?”)

You are setting forth challenges in terms that you do not understand and until you understand that, that is the position at which you will remain. [...]

([Ron:] “To a certain extent, you know, you can always— you can bring my motivations into question, but I have like one overriding feeling and that is—I feel that within my own experience I have seen certain indications just from the things that I might be capable of that I could do this myself if, if when and if, because I have entertained the challenge of developing this ability but I in this situation here, I am confronted with kind of a different type of ramifications. [...]

The point is that all of the world’s problems also represent great challenges. [...]

So in a certain fashion the artist is “looking for a creative solution to a sensed but never clearly stated problem or challenge, and that involves him in artistic adventure. [...]

[...] If he is brilliant he may receive the acclaim of his fellows, but the artist, whether or not he finds acclaim, must still always be face to face with that creative challenge. [...]

(Still buzzing …) Give us a moment … For example: In certain terms, you are working with the challenge of how best to use the world’s resources. [...] In overall terms contemporaries are working on the same group of challenges, though either oversupply or great lack might show itself at any particular place. Perhaps, however, the challenges could not be clearly delineated without those extravagances of degree.

[...] You work out creative challenges and possibilities. [...]

[...] Each is working on the same series of challenges. [...]

[...] At the same time, the self would learn and be changed through the challenges and struggles of its human portions.

[...] It’s a challenge to stick this out.”)

[...] You see a range of human being and personality that defies conventional ideas of sexuality or of consciousness — that defies all of the ideas that have been handed down to you, and that challenges you each to look for the reality of your own being.

[...] She’s from out of town, and I hardly know her [she’s also so quiet]; but even so, I could see how it was possible that she could be embarked upon her own series of lifetime challenges while expressing certain qualities of the entity, or whole self from, which we both emerged. [...]

[...] No one else has viewed your particular dilemma through your eyes, yet others have been in similar situations, solved the challenges involved, and gone on to greater creativity and fulfillment. If you can momentarily abandon your private world view, that focus from which you experience reality, then you can allow the experience of others who have had similar challenges to color your perception. [...]

(It seems that a combination of factors led to those oddly disturbing yet challenging events in the 717th session. [...]

[...] Although my father’s “sole intent” was the very challenging one of raising a family in this reality, still he may have often exchanged ideas about automobiles, motorcycles, welding torches, cameras, and so forth, with that other inventor-self.

[...] We cannot blame God, society, or our parents for misfortunes, since before this physical life we chose the circumstances into which we would be born and the challenges that could best bring about our development. [...]

[...] Seth often explained problems as the result of unresolved stresses in past reincarnational lives, and gave specific advice as to how the individuals could use their abilities now to meet these challenges.

[...] I’m aware that you may be coping with certain challenges through the psychic method, so the question becomes one of how far you want to carry the thing. [...]

[...] But that, then, still leaves us with the challenge of coping with something much less than a successful solution here in this reality. [...]

[...] In that area you were presented with a challenge, and discovered a highly unique way of meeting it.

For this reason you also feel that they are not challenging to produce, as compared with your other paintings. [...]

[...] Man’s emerging ego therefore brought forth emotional and psychological problems and challenges. [...]

Man desired in one way to step out of himself, out of the framework in which he had his psychological existence, to try new challenges, to step out of a mode of consciousness into another. [...]

[...] It may accept the challenge of great change on the other hand, and allow a reorganization of psychological processes, in which case identity is not only saved but renewed. [...]

[...] At his best he does lose himself in work, and finds himself; but the work must be to him exciting, highly creative and challenging. [...]

[...] This doesn’t mean that I make believe we have no challenges, but that I for one refuse to dwell upon them, so as to not draw forth unwanted probabilities. [...]

1. We called those three very penetrating sessions private, or deleted, because they grew out of our own reactions to David Yoder’s challenges, to the illness of our cat Billy, to the playful antics of Billy’s littermate Mitzi, and to several other personal matters. [...]

[...] He likes that kind of challenge as long as there is no stigma attached to nonachievement. [...]