“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You can choose any perspective that you want from which to view the reality that you know. You can choose, therefore, to view the reality that you know from a self, in your terms, that you have been. [...]

[...] It is not a point of them trying to invade a native stock; they simply understood the nature of individual existences, therefore they are able to choose from various physical systems those in which they would like to have experience.

[...] Those consciousnesses who picked physical materialization choose to operate under certain conditions that then appear as the natural characteristics of a species to you.

[...] Hence earlier I spoke of the natural bent of humanity, of all those, then, who choose existence within your particular planetary existence.

There are individuals who do choose ahead of time — in one lifetime or another — to accept such a divergent genetic heritage for their own reasons — often to experience life from one of its most unique aspects, and sometimes in order to encourage the growth of other abilities that might not otherwise occur.

[...] In larger terms I even understand why one would choose to carry certain behavior to ultimate extremes. [...]

[...] We now seem able to clear up any such discrepancies by referring back to them, if we choose to, and have done so a few times. [...]

[...] You may include this material or not in the records, as you choose. [...]

At the same time he chooses words as the basis for his art. [...]

[...] Granted that certain individuals could choose to pursue certain goals and challenges even through the point of physical death, never relaxing that focus; still, most did not. [...]

[...] If you, or anyone, chooses to extract the utmost from whatever experience is decided upon, then you have to go with that. [...]

[...] No personality chooses a life situation of illness. It chooses the best method it can to aid in overall development.

[...] And while it may or may not choose to enter at that point, it is drawn irresistibly to that time and point in space and flesh.

[...] The personality, for its own reasons, may decide upon choosing a body that is not aesthetically pleasing. [...]

The very nature of the ego and of the personality is formed by the ability to choose between actions or stimuli; but life as it is not connected to a highly differentiated ego, rejoices in all stimuli, as sensation, whether it is pleasurable or painful, for these distinctions do not exist in your terms. [...]

[...] It may choose to reject whole areas for various reasons, usually out of a mistaken fear that the actions involved threaten the permanence of itself.

[...] You do indeed choose your own environment and your own life circumstances. [...] But you also are endowed with free will and there is no punishment except [for] those of you who choose to punish yourselves. [...] You grow in understanding, and if you kill, then it is necessary that you learn what it means to be a victim and so you become a victim if you choose. [...]

[...] You choose to experience certain versions of events. [...]

Each identity has free will, and chooses its environment as a physical stance in space and time. [...]

Each will choose his or her own framework, according to the intents of the consciousness of which each of you is an independent part. [...]

[...] Since there aren’t any laws about all of this, a great man could choose to do it that way in order to affect our world more with his gifts, from his own personal angles. [...]

[...] They do so in any case on unconscious levels, where they form the basis from which you choose your current experience.

[...] You must make innumerable decisions in your lives — must choose careers, mates, cities of residence. [...]

(For a while now Jane and I have been considering the question, aloud, of Seth’s availability to us whenever we choose to hold a session. [...]

(This is a different thing than Seth being available say at 8 AM, or noon, or other capricious hours we may choose. [...]

Selves (spelled) have far greater freedom than leaves, but they can also root themselves if they choose — and they do. Reincarnational selves are like leaves that have left the plant, choosing a new medium of existence. [...]

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”

[...] Usually we just flash our consciousness in one direction and say this is real, but in this experiment at least, let us flash that light down that pyramid in whatever direction we choose. [...]

[...] The Sumari family that Jane and I choose to be allied with is one of these. [...]

[...] Understand that individuals themselves between lives choose the time of their own birth, adopting ahead of time those characteristics that they feel will best aid their development, and challenge their abilities.

Our friend attempted to choose a different battleground last evening. [...]