“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Impulses also open up choices that may not have been consciously available before. [...]

The motive power of the universe and of each particle or wave or person within it is the magnificent thrust toward creative probabilities, and the tension that exists, the exuberant tension, that exists “between” probable choices and probable events. [...]

You should be able to see, in fact, that the problems we have been discussing begin by limiting the field of available choices, and thus curtailing the range of expression. [...]

[...] There are many choices. [...]

[...] I suggest — and only suggest — that that be your choice, because it is the most daring of the ventures for you, and because the hill will give you a view in many more ways than one.

[...] [However, Jane and I freely admit that on occasion we’ve made the wrong choice in deciding to ignore what Seth had to say; in retrospect we’ve seen that he gave out very valid material.]

[...] The choices are small to your way, but choice is not impossible. Actually there is choice, but the manipulation of camouflage is not developed along your lines. [...]

(I talked to her for a few minutes, saying I had no choice but to leave. [...]

[...] You have your choice, broadly, within certain frameworks that you have chosen as a part of your creaturehood. [...]

[...] The experience of a country is the cumulative result of the choice of each individual in it, so as you choose your own circumstances you affect each other person within your country and your world.

[...] (Slowly.) He has a free choice, now. [...]

[...] He has a choice of motion now. [...]

(I am finishing up a series of half a dozen life-sized portraits, at the end of which, I told myself some time ago, I would feel free to embark upon larger projects of whatever choice I made. [...]

[...] He must of course make his own choice as to the extent to which he wants to commit himself to our work. [...]

He has been offered several opportunities or choices. It is not a matter of too few choices, but almost of too many.

Right now Dr. Instream has several choices of action available. [...]

(Long pause at 4:44.) What you are involved in then is really, of course, a completely new educational procedure, so that you are at least able to distinguish one style of thought from another, and therefore be freer to make choices.

[...] Ruburt knows how much he could make if he wanted to through classes; and even in choosing to have only one per week, a choice is involved that earlier did not exist. [...]

[...] You are immediately presented with choices. [...] Yet the conscious mind arose precisely to open up choices, to free you from a one-road experience, to let you use your creativity to form diversified, varied comprehensions.

[...] Ruburt’s personal feeling is important as far as any witnesses are concerned, and while I did suggest a witness to him tonight the choice of the witness was his. Your choice, Joseph, is of course important here, but someone antagonistic to Ruburt might bother him, which is why I left the choice to him.

(9:53.) To some extent both of you, and by your own choices, have established your own laboratory of the mind, in which you live your lives and examine them at the same time—and in which you try to view any maladies and dissatisfactions by different standards; and in a light that requires more of you, so that you do not rely as others do upon the comforts of conventionalized knowledge in any field.

With man’s own exteriorized ego, this leads to the question of free will and the making of conscious choices.

[...] He completely forgot that personalities have their own choices to make. [...]

[...] It must make its own choices, and may accept or refuse help given. [...]

[...] But you did not pick it out as your first choice. [...] And your own intellectual ideas prevented you from first picking out your intuitive choice, as far as the portraits were concerned. [...]

[...] He or she should be enlightened enough through doctor-patient discussions to make choices about the treatment. [...]

[...] In your terms, those who are grown are always taken away, and the voice spoke in those terms, and you made your choice. [...]

It does no good to say that one choice was better than the other, and do not worry yourself with such concerns for you are interwoven spiritually with every atom and molecule that exists within those of your children and your wife. [...]