“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Usually however we are highly active, our full energies focused in our work and in new challenges.

[...] For some time there was no direct challenge, however, made to the Sinful Self once Ruburt left the church. [...]

[...] [Others, I’ve often speculated, couldn’t realize the depth of Jane’s challenges.] As we talked, Jane laughed and said she picked up from Seth that “the best books are yet to come.”)

[...] Okay: I hope sometime to tell the entire story of my physical and creative challenges, which as of now of course is unfinished. [...]

[...] The inner psychic organizations always determine the kind of challenges and civilizations that emerge. [...]

If you will think of this, both of you now, and you must, as a creative challenge, this will be of great benefit. [...]

[...] It’ll still be up to me to add my kind of detail to each of those works, but there’s no doubt that she’s enjoying the challenge of playing with the Seth books from the “other side” — my viewpoint — for a change. [...]

[...] You can and often do work out in dreams the challenges of daily life. In waking life you are also working out challenges set for yourselves in the dream state. [...]

[...] You are coming to grips with issues that you were bound to grapple with, and you are dealing with the challenges that are involved. [...]

[...] I have participated in other existences and moment points that you might find confining, but that was challenging to me. [...]

[...] However, I do think I’m accurate concerning the connections between Jane’s early psychological conditioning and her present challenges.)

To return to just Jane and Marie, then, I think that their long-range cyclical behavior and interaction, no matter how painful it may seem on the surface, represented deep challenges set up by mother and daughter for certain overall purposes that they wanted to experience, separately and jointly. [...]

[...] In other lives he was able to exist without too much adversity and this time he chose troublesome and truly tragic circumstances as a needed challenge.

And you have done well this week, working out some challenges concerning your paintings. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, the facts remain that your own inner self and your own entity have given you challenges that you have accepted. Now you know these challenges; subconsciously you are aware of them. [...] There must always be the acknowledgement that you do not consciously as yet realize the depths of yourself, the goals you have set and the challenges, and this material should be used to open up your inner horizons and to lead you in those directions toward which your inner self has already set you. [...]

[...] Each individual, generally speaking, knows his challenges and overall programs, and the time of his death. [...]

[...] I also was curious as to what he’d say about my speculation that the symptoms themselves might actually be one of her main challenges in this life.

[...] It then prepares itself ahead of time to meet whatever challenges of adjustment will be necessary. [...]

[...] But this time of emotional turmoil takes their minds off the fact that their children are grown, and adds a new challenge—one that convinces them that life is still exciting, that you must be on your toes. [...]

(I finally concluded it wasn’t worth it, and hoped Jane would adopt some of this thinking for some of her own challenges. [...]

[...] In my greater viewpoint I see your lives—many of them, and the emergence of overall patterns of achievement and challenge, and I hope that you will progress to your own visions of such realities—at least in dreams, for they will sustain you.

[...] Growth and challenge are provided not in terms of achievement or development in time, but instead in terms of intensities. [...]

[...] You were to work out problems and challenges, but you were always to be aware of your own inner reality, and of your nonphysical existence. [...]