“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Since you are obviously able to enjoy physical activity at times, you chose to remain alone rather than “play with the others.” [...]

You chose to be leaders rather than followers, and you would not have it otherwise.

You have fallen for the same conventionalized beliefs that they have, only you chose the subjective side. [...]

[...] I explained to Jane some thoughts I’d had in bed last night—that her returning home in reasonably good shape would solve all of our major challenges at this time: her career, income, insurance problems, physical freedom, the ability to travel if we chose—all of them, freeing us to start leading some sort of more-or-less normal lifestyle. [...]

[...] (Long pause at 9:10.) You chose the circumstances against which to pit yourself. [...]

You did not chose that easy way for a reason. [...]

(Pause.) Painting should be enough, you may think sometimes, but you chose to be the kind of person who wanted to explore the greater reaches of reality, from which art itself emerges. [...]

(Pause at 10:25.) You must again realize that you chose your situation, and because it is a valuable one you sought it out. [...]

[...] They may say that since an individual chose his or her problems in this life — deciding for instance to be born black, or poor, or both — that karma is being worked out; therefore such issues should not be adjusted through a change of law or custom. [...]

[...] Seth, I thought, would say that my father chose all the circumstances of his life, and that such a deprivation in old age was a probable result that materialized physically. [...]

[...] Ruburt chose the method. [...]

[...] He thought he chose methods then that would annoy each of you the least.

[...] You took a temporary situation, then, and chose it for those reasons. [...]

(Slowly:) Ruburt’s mother chose her own life. [...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) She and Ruburt chose a relationship that would terminate, so the two would go their separate ways. [...]

I do not want to go into the complicated reasons why your civilization chose such beliefs, but you are everywhere presented with their effects. [...]

[...] You chose the circumstances. You purposely chose a time involved in which writers and artists had it “hard”—so you cannot turn around then and blame the society. [...]

(“Could you travel to the Milky Way if you chose to?”)

[...] Each of you, in your own ways and on the grounds that you chose, were dealing intimately with challenges as you tried to decipher the unknown reality and bring it into physical manifestation as best you could.

[...] There is no reason for him to feel stupid or inferior because he chose a challenge for himself that few would take. [...]

[...] Yet both of you chose conditions that were not “proper” in those terms to begin with, and hence highlighted the situation so you could understand it. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 10:22.) Ruburt chose his environment. Ruburt chose his parents for his own lifetime: he was born in the right place at the right time. [...]

[...] Unconsciously she chose the precise “old” class session, dealing with probabilities, and containing her description, last June, of an out-of-body episode in which she did indeed visit a probable class. [...]

(We chose our bedroom because it would be more private and comfortable than the living room. [...]

(I told Jane before we began that we would not stress tests to prove hypnosis, that these could come later if we chose. [...]

[...] Now we went over her recent dream activity, in the event Seth chose to offer material on that. [...]

[...] The child’s desire to die chose that event. [...]

[...] She was herself; but in the interweavings of probabilities, while certain agreed-upon historic events were accepted, she admitted into her reality whatever portions of your probable reality she chose. [...]

[...] In greater terms you chose both life and death, and the picture of you at the age of 16⁹ was never taken in one reality.

[...] There are other connections with this life, in which Ruburt chose a woman for his mother who was helpless. [...]

The mother had been particularly given to the mutilation of prisoners, and hence chose the physical condition finally—not, now, as punishment, but to understand the experience—and to develop abilities under those conditions.