“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience. [...]

[...] I feel he’s irritated, but I tell myself I chose that condition with its resulting humiliations in the past and now I am choosing to be responsive; to be more alive; and those incidences will soon BE past. [...]

[...] We realize our freedom to choose our thoughts, and we choose them with some discrimination and finesse.

[...] One does not choose illness, per se, for a life situation. [...]

[...] The personality could choose, and attempt, a partial recovery. [...]

According to Seth, we choose our illnesses and the circumstances of our birth and death. [...] Some part of us is upset and chooses an illness or accident as a way of expressing this inner situation. [...]

Why would anyone choose a life of illness or poverty? [...]

[...] Nor do we choose illness per se as a given life situation, even though we may utilize such an illness as a part of a larger plan, as a method of teaching ourselves some important truth or as a means of developing certain abilities.

[...] … One does not choose illness per se for a lifetime situation. [...]

[...] It has the ability to see what is coming, so to speak, but while the frightened ego is still in control it chooses to see only a portion of what is possible, and before the point of death it usually chooses to hide in the past.

In such experiments, when you attempt purposeful visits, then choose of course people with whom you are familiar and in rapport, so that if you materialize fully they will recognize you as a friend, and follow whatever instructions you are able to give them. [...]

(10:52.) You choose your futures, but you also choose your pasts. [...]

The fetus also understands that it can respond to a stimulus — to any stimulus it chooses — from a variety of probable futures. [...]

In this book we will be involved with the nature of beliefs and with various methods that will allow you to choose those beliefs that lead to a more satisfying life.

(Pause, one of many.) I choose my words quite carefully at times, because I realize the various interpretations that can be placed upon them. [...]

[...] Some individuals choose to specialize, following specific lines of abilities throughout many existences — accommodating these, however, to the times in which they are born. [...]

[...] In simple terms, you choose ahead of time the kind of body you will inhabit and impress. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Many of you for your own reasons pursue courses that do not involve an even development of abilities, an overall balanced picture, for example, but choose to express and experiment with certain qualities to the exclusion of others. [...]

[...] All identities do not choose physical existence. [...]

Those that choose physical existence, once having done so, must follow through. [...]

[...] The volcano learns a new lesson: It can direct its power in whatever way it chooses, shooting upward or lying quietly. [...] (Slowly now:) It can, if it chooses, allow soft sands to lie gracefully upon its cooling expanse.

[...] You are not islands unto yourselves, except when you choose to be. [...]

[...] Other probable actions are always occurring, however, and are quite as valid as the ones which you happen to choose and thus experience.

In terms of personality as you understand it, the individual chooses the abilities he or she will have, and the life challenges. [...]

[...] It is arbitrary; that is, from your viewpoint you arbitrarily choose certain portions of reality and call them units, marking them off. [...]

It makes no difference to the frog, to the nature of the frog, and it changes no smallest cell within him, if you choose to enclose what you call him, as an idea unit called frog, or whether you consider instead the complete picture. [...]

[...] You can choose to believe me, and to act upon what I tell you, or you can choose to ignore the implications of what I say. [...]

[...] I chose that life deliberately, as each of you choose each of yours, and I did so because my previous lives had left me too blasé. [...]

[...] It does mean that each of you choose those life conditions that you have for your own purpose, knowing ahead of time where your weaknesses and strengths lie. [...]

[...] So you choose a certain focus, as you choose ahead of time your physical family.¹¹

(11:14.) You choose to be born in a particular physical family, however, with your brothers and sisters, or as an only child. [...]

[...] Seth delivered much material about reincarnation, including “the time of choosing” between lives, recreating and changing events in past lives, and past and present reincarnational family relationships; probabilities; dreams; the fetus, and so forth.

[...] Another may choose the severest poverty, projecting into that situation his or her own resolved conflicts. Another may choose alcoholism.

[...] She did not choose a situation in which either her health or beauty would be imperiled. [...]

The “victims” choose to participate in those conditions at spiritual, psychological, and biological levels. [...]

[...] However, those who choose such deaths want to die in terms of drama, in the middle of their activities, and are in a strange way filled with the exultant inner knowledge of life’s strength even at the point of death. [...]

Those people were aware just beneath consciousness of the possibilities of such an event long before the disaster occurred, and could until the last moment choose to avoid the encounter. [...]

([Ron:] “What system of values do you use to choose in your moral decisions?”)

[...] It was only later that I wondered how such a God would choose me for such a position and then I began to wonder. [...]