“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There are only various expressions and characteristics of love, and all love affirms. [...]

[...] If, instead, you allowed yourself to free the feeling of love that is actually behind your dissatisfaction, then it alone would allow you to see the loving characteristics in the race that now escape your observation to a large degree.

[...] In the beginning in those terms, man’s emerging consciousness needed the freedom to disperse itself, to become different, to originate bases for various characteristics, and assert individuations. [...]

A person could neither be proud of personal achievement nor blamed for failure, since in large measure his characteristics, potentials, and lacks were seen as the result of chance, heredity, and of unconscious mechanisms over which he seemingly had little control. The devil went underground, figuratively speaking, so that many of his mischievous qualities and devious characteristics were assigned to the unconscious. [...]

(Pause.) It was in many respects a new world, for it was the first one in which large portions of humanity believed that they were isolated from nature and God, and in which no grandeur was acknowledged as a characteristic of the soul. [...]

[...] The man reminds Ruburt personality-wise of your mother, hence his dislike of seeing the characteristics so similar in the male and younger portrait.

This particular daughter-in-law of your parents pretends, or superimposes a caricature of conventionally accepted female characteristics to hide the basic male qualities. [...]

[...] When he swears and is aggressive, he thinks he is showing those male characteristics, you see. [...]

[...] It does generate heat, and it is characteristic of many, if not most, healing experiences.

[...] (Pause.) They do not have visions or experience, again generally speaking, with any characteristics that cannot be actualized more or less within the framework of established experience. [...]

[...] That is, if once he disliked crowds, a new purpose and understanding should let him rise above such nonsense—but there has always been a kind of singularity there (long pause)—a characteristic need to go his own way. [...]

[...] Your intellect as you think of it operates so clearly and precisely, so logically (with amusement), sometimes so arrogantly, because the intellect rides that great thrust of codified, “ancient,” “unconscious” power—the power of instant knowing that is a characteristic of the body consciousness (all very intently).

[...] If joy has always been one of the characteristics of earth experience, so has suffering, and the subject will be covered in this book. [...]

[...] You end up with Christs, spacemen, various saints or spirits, or other personality fabrications whose characteristics and abilities are already known.

[...] Before the Roman gods were fully formalized, there was a spectacular range of good and bad deities, with all gradations [among them], that more or less “democratically” represented the unknown but sensed, splendid and tumultuous characteristics of the human soul, and have stood for those sensed but unknown glimpses of his own reality that man was in one way or another determined to explore.

[...] These characteristics are mental, and are thrust outward by you upon your image. [...]

The characteristics that were yours at birth were yours for a reason. [...]

[...] Except for the physical processes of reproduction, the species is free to arrange its psychological characteristics in whatever fashions it chooses. [...]

[...] The male’s aggressive tendencies, often taken as basic characteristics of the species itself, are a case in point. [...]

Those characteristics that kept you from contributing to those conditions are those that now are most needed, and will be most recognized. [...]

You sensed certain characteristics in Ruburt when first you met, and you knew intuitively that certain probabilities could bring the two of you together, both using your individual abilities in ways at that time unknown to you, but that those individual abilities, joined, could together produce a new kind of threshold—an overview through which that sensed excellence could at least be glimpsed, contained in essence at least, and communicated.

(Long pause.) The two of you mixed and matched your characteristics, and put them together in such a fashion that they would jointly form a completely new kind of creation, in terms of art and psychology, and this was bound to produce expansions of your consciousnesses, and stresses and strains, when you came across portions of your ideas that had not grown along with the rest of you. [...]

[...] You are an accomplished person in painting and in writing, and the characteristics that also give you those abilities merge together to form the framework of the sessions, and the excellent quality of the notes—in which, by the way, you communicate to others very clearly those ideas of excellence, and those visions, that sustain many readers.

In the dreaming state the characteristics of the reasoning mind become altered, and from a waking viewpoint it might seem distorted in its activity. [...]

(Long pause.) Let us first of all return momentarily to the subject of the reasoning mind, its uses and characteristics. [...]

Each person’s nature, however, innately possesses all of the qualities and characteristics necessary to bring about its own fulfillment. [...]

None of Ruburt’s characteristics are “negative,” bad, or dangerous. [...]

[...] The intensity of the thought or emotion determines the characteristics of the units themselves. [...]

[...] Animals, as any pet owner knows, have their own personalities and characteristics, and individual ways of perceiving the reality available to them. [...]

[...] The wind makes certain sounds that are dependent upon the characteristics of the earth. The breath makes certain sounds that are dependent upon the characteristics of the body. [...]

[...] The white light is characteristically a symbol in such cases. [...]

2. Chromosomes are rod-like bodies within the cell nucleus, and carry the genes that govern hereditary characteristics. [...]

“In the sort of exploration of which I am speaking, the personality attempts to go within itself, to find its way through the veils of adopted characteristics to its own inner identity. [...]

[...] Although he lacked that characteristic mark of speaking for a superbeing, this was because he frequently regarded himself as the superbeing. [...]

[...] The very distortions therefore form many of the characteristic differences which for him gives his reality its peculiar nature. [...]

[...] You have for now a sufficient basis in its characteristics so that we can begin with other discussions, and shortly we will do so.

Now each individual is also given ways and means of a highly personal nature, characteristics or abilities that automatically begin to lead it out of such old belief systems, when those characteristics are allowed their freedom. [...]