“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But it is good for you to understand that personality can have other characteristics than those you presently ascribe to it. [...]

[...] The trouble is that working within that framework, the self-structure is further weakened, for the normally repressed characteristics of Augustus Two are forever denied. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 10:25.) The self that you know and recognize carries within it hints and traces of all of your probable characteristics that can be actualized within your system of reality. [...]

It will help, as you did once some time ago, if you compose a list of Ruburt’s good qualities and excellent personal characteristics.

[...] And when they slayed other animals themselves and ate the heart, for example, it was not only to obtain the animals’ “stout hearts,” or fearlessness; but also the intent was to preserve those characteristics so that through men’s experiences each animal would continue to live to some extent.

[...] When I say as I have that the overall entity [or whole self] is neither male nor female, and yet refer to [some] entities by definite male names such as “Ruburt” and “Joseph,” I merely mean that in the overall essence, the [given] entity identifies itself more with the so-called male characteristics than with the female.

[...] Characteristically I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

[...] I do not come to you as someone who does not know what it is like to be human,²⁶ and in those personality characteristics that I use when I speak to you, I show you that the emotional life continues….

[...] The — I hope — delightfully human egotistical characteristics that I show help calm your fears and show you that the self as you think of it continues to exist [after physical death]. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In a fashion, creative play is your human version of far greater characteristics from which your universe itself was formed. [...]

[...] Such a book will always be expressed through those invisible national characteristics that are so intimately involved with language—and obviously, were that not so, no book could be understood by someone of a foreign language. [...]

[...] Many of these characteristics are not particularly negative at all. [...]

[...] Ruburt allowed this to add to latent (underlined) characteristics of his own. [...]

[...] This characteristic is an attribute of the CU’s, which have already slowed down to some extent when they form EE units.²

Any discussion of the unknown reality must necessarily involve certain usually dismissed hypotheses about the characteristics of consciousness itself. [...]

Now: This ability to change form is an inherent characteristic of any consciousness. [...]

[...] When you feel that your world is not safe the body may respond in many ways, according to the characteristic temperament and beliefs. [...]

[...] Many — not all, now — criminals possess the same characteristics you ascribe to heroes, except that the heroes have a means toward the expression of idealism, and specific avenues for that expression. [...]

[...] You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.

Fanaticism abounds, of course, because the human tendencies and experiences that have been denied by the mainline society erupt with explosive force, where the tendencies themselves must be accepted as characteristics of human experience. [...]

All of this involves you in the private nitty-gritty of dealing with the ways of thinking and reasoning that are so characteristic in your society and in your time. [...]

[...] I do not want to speak of great missions, yet it is also true that in its fashion each creature’s life is a mission, with all of its characteristics and abilities uniquely suited. [...]

Her own psychology and characteristic methods of behavior are still hers, however, and operate, so that “she” “tunes into” those areas of probabilities that concern her own desires and interests. [...]

(I had to laugh a bit, for Seth’s description of my mother’s thinking processes was so very characteristic of her.)

[...] But the unit selves retain their identity, as in a nation the citizens retain theirs, even though the nation at times may act as a unit, and share particular mass characteristic drives and desires, and work toward various goals.

Because of some of mankind’s curious characteristics, often it does not change unless his life depends upon it, unless survival is threatened. [...]

[...] Here I am saying that the atoms and molecules themselves, because of their characteristics, not only deal with probabilities within the body’s cellular structure, but also helps the body make predictive judgments about entities or objects outside of itself.

[...] We adopt whatever personality characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth.