“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The structure of probabilities provides on the one hand a system of barriers, in which practical growth is not chosen or significant; and on the other hand it insures a safe, creative, rich environment — a reality — in which the idealization can choose from an almost infinite variety of possible actions those best suited to its own fulfillment.

[...] You are the judge and the final word in that regard, so that as your ideas change, as you move toward one probable self and decide upon that as your official³ self, you will always have a rich bank of probable actions to choose from. [...]

[...] Man can be aware of the vast medium of probabilities in which he exists, and therefore consciously choose those best suited to those idealizations that point toward his greatest fulfillment. [...]

[...] Again, these are simply certain focuses that you choose, that direct your experience. [...]

[...] If all of this goes on personally, as you choose one melody and call it yourself, then perhaps you can begin to see the mass creative aspects in terms of civilizations that seem to rise and fall.

[...] In your case, however, you can change your own pacing, add variations, or even begin an entirely new composition if you choose to. [...]

[...] You would not say, or (humorously) at least I hope you would not say: “Why would anyone write a composition like Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique?”⁸ Why would a composer choose a somber mood? [...]

[...] In that regard, in your framework of action you choose to “speak” one event rather than another. [...]

[...] You choose from those experiences certain ones as events in normal waking reality.

[...] It has, however, literally endless probabilities to choose from, to fulfill its abilities while maintaining a workable selfhood.⁶ Consciousness chooses the best overall conditions available for its own purposes of growth. [...]

[...] Ahead of time, you choose the seasons of your birth.

Consciousness does not simply choose to be born at a certain place in space and time, but it also endows its physical organism ahead of time with certain inner triggers so that it will respond to those conditions in highly individualistic ways.

[...] Each child chooses its own probable version of any given birthdate. [...]

[...] You choose your genetic structure so that it suits the challenges and capabilities of the species. You choose your genetic structure so that it suits the challenges and potentials that you have chosen. [...]

[...] The analogy may be a simple one, yet each person chooses the living vessel of the body, with his or her own intents and purposes in mind.

I’m sure that Seth would be the first to agree that consciousness obviously contains an unlimited number of viewpoints, regardless of which ones we humans may choose to call “true” at any particular time. [...]

[...] And for the first time since we married 20 years ago [in 1954], Jane has a room to herself for her own writing — if she chooses to use it. [...]

[...] You teeter between probabilities, having the full power to choose one street or the other as physical experience. [...]

[...] Say you choose Street Four. [...]

[...] You are in no way diminished because other quite-as-official selves are “offshoots” of your own experience, making the choices you did not make, and choosing, then, alternate versions of reality.

[...] They will utilize the physical catastrophe as an individual might use a symptom for purposes of challenge, growth, or understanding — but they will choose their disaster just as they will choose their symptoms. [...]

(12:23.) Those who want to use their unconscious precognition of such an event will take advantage of it — save themselves, and choose not to be involved. [...]

Each person seeks value fulfillment, and that means that they choose various lives in such a fashion that all of their abilities and capacities can be best developed, and in such a way that their world is also enriched. Some people will choose “defective” bodies purposely in order to focus more intensely in other areas. [...]

[...] Yet granting all this, why, again, would some individuals choose situations that would be experienced as defective conditions? [...]

While I admit that many people will not agree with me (smile), I know from experience that most individuals do not choose one “happy” life after another, always ensconced in a capable body, endowed by nature or heritage with all of the gifts most people seem to think they desire.

[...] You will choose among them. [...] The various lines however all represent full use of your abilities, merely pointing out various lines of focus that you may choose.

[...] He can do one one day and one another if he chooses— but fifteen minutes minimum of any kind of exercising activity.

[...] You capture as much as possible and in whatever way you choose, a careless, childlike, playing attitude.

If you choose the first approach, then you must plunge wholeheartedly into the person you are using as model, and immerse yourself in his reality, and from this let the painting flow.

[...] It must not be a willy-nilly trial, a one-or-two day affair, but a wholehearted plunge into whatever approach you choose, and you should also follow the suggestions given later concerning time and your attitude. [...]

Your present is the result of your own poised consciousness, choosing its perception and the nature of its life from a field that is at all predictable only because of the greater area of organization available to it.

[...] This process chooses significances then, again, around which experience is built, and around which “life” is felt. [...]

[...] So he must now come to realize that he himself chooses from a myriad of probabilities the one that he now encounters.

[...] The idea of strands of consciousness is important, for he can now choose strands. [...]

[...] Too narrow ideas of the nature of existence can follow you through several lives if you do not choose to be spiritually and psychically flexible.

[...] Some individuals always choose to be born as a part of some group — reborn, in other words, with past contemporaries, while others, disdaining such endeavors, return in much more isolated positions.

[...] In a reincarnational situation, he would always choose to return with associates. [...]

[...] There are as many different ways to reincarnate, therefore, as there are inner selves, and each inner self will choose its own characteristic methods.

[...] What you think of as daily life is then a focus upon certain probable events above others, a choosing of significances, a selection of pattern. [...]

[...] That rides secure, choosing from unpredictable fields of actuality those that suit its own particular nature.

Now some of you might choose some of the same events, and there probabilities will merge. [...]

[...] Give us a moment … In the life that you know, as given in Personal Reality, your beliefs act to specify the particular probable events that will become “real.”¹⁰ Because you are a probable self, an understanding of your own nature will show you some of the abilities, not used here, but present, that you can indeed choose to actualize. [...]

Each of you need two 5-minute periods a day, at least, in which you purposefully relax mental and physical tensions through whatever methods you choose. [...]

You choose the city or state or country in which you live. [...] So you choose your psychic land as well. [...]

(All emphatically and joyously:) In your terms, the world is intensely different from one moment to another, with each smallest portion of consciousness choosing its reality from a field of infinite probabilities.³ Immense calculations, far beyond your conscious decisions as you think of them, are possible only because of the unutterable freedom that resides within minute worlds inside your skull — patterns of interrelationships, counterparts so cunningly woven that each is unique, freewheeling, and involved in an infinite cooperative venture so powerful that the atoms stay in certain forms, and the same stars shine in the sky.

This does not mean that you should not write a clear letter stating your own reaction against the cover, if you so choose.

It will take some time to discuss the staff’s opinion of you both, so I suggest that we leave that for another time of your choosing.

[...] You choose and have the freedom to choose. [...]

[...] To venture into such a skein requires that one constantly picks and chooses among them—for each move, each thought, even, can launch the traveler into a different probability. [...] (What if one doesn’t want a probable reality they choose? [...]

[...] To me, redemption means a continuous search or journey, then, involving whatever events and interchanges we choose to create, for whatever purposes, along the way—and truly, I think, some of those purposes will involve things “the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive.” [...]

[...] Our independence relative to reincarnation may represent just conscious cussedness on our parts, but we believe that each of us (meaning anyone, that is) always has the freedom to accept or reject any such choice or causality —whatever we choose to do. No, instead we think of our current challenges as contributing to the knowledge of our whole selves in most specific ways, rather than our being swayed that much by our reincarnational and/or counterpart associations. [...]

I keep wondering about the results of an individual’s choosing not to call upon any of his or her bank of reincarnational lives, though, whether from the past or the future. [...]

[...] From these you then choose the most appropriate for physical expression. [...]