“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Mark is considering a commitment to an idea. Unless he studies himself most thoroughly, he must take great pains to see that the commitment is followed up by self-discipline. [...]

(Dickie read his essay about creativity and commitment.

[...] You commit a beautiful dream each time you dream. [...]

[...] Under drugs, choices become limited, and certainly people have committed suicide while under the influence of drugs — who may not have otherwise. [...]

[...] When you want to work, do so, for as long as you feel like it, committed to it freely, having decided then that for that time, nothing will be allowed to interfere.

[...] You chose a woman (beside reincarnational reasons which you will finally be given one day) who would not bear children and who would have as strong a commitment as your own.

[...] A man who kills with hatred will have his hatred to contend with, but he is not able to kill anyone who has not decided to die—and to die in a particular manner; that is, someone who wants his death blamed on another, who would not commit suicide, who would not choose a long illness—someone who is ready to die but does not want to deal with the circumstances, and wants indeed to be surprised by death.

[...] He inhibited many of his strongest drives in order to focus them upon his search and the work to which he was committed.

[...] Ruburt is quite deeply committed to them despite all of these colorations, and so are you.

Again, no one is punished for crimes committed in a past life, and in each life you are unique. [...]

[...] Love incites dedication, commitment. [...]

[...] If he were not committed to the material he would have ceased the sessions long ago. [...]

[...] You may, for example, sneeze or not sneeze, cough or not cough, walk to the window or the door, scratch your elbow, save a child from drowning, learn a lesson, commit suicide, harm another, or turn your cheek.

[...] You suspected that you were not as “mired” (long pause) as other people were, and also that in some fashion you were not as committed to usual (underlined) physical experience. [...]

(Long pause.)In a way, to a degree—the qualifications are necessary—you provided yourselves an extra kind of commitment that would keep your observations of life from becoming too surface, or so it seemed. [...]

Now: In the same way that a member of such a society can go [askew], blow his stack, go overboard, commit antisocial acts, so in the same fashion such a person can instead trigger the viruses, wreck their biological social order, so that some of them suddenly become deadly, or run [amok]. [...]

[...] He did not make this probability his own because of what you may call ‘other commitments’ — or rather, other purposes.

[...] Later he felt that she would either commit suicide or kill them both while he slept, and he feared the night. [...]

[...] I do want to point out that few crimes are committed for “evil’s sake,” but in a distorted response to the failure of the actualization of a sensed ideal.

You will often condone quite reprehensible acts if you think they were committed for the sake of a greater good. [...]

You have atrocious acts committed, along with great heroisms, but each are explosive, representing sudden releases of withheld energies that have in other ways been forbidden, and so man’s mass psyche expresses itself sometimes like explosive fireworks, simply because the release of pressure is necessary.

[...] You make your own lessons, so that these mass suicides and murders are an objective culmination, on those peoples’ part, of other, lesser psychological suicides committed on the part of millions who abdicate their personal responsibility in such a way.

[...] Now his face, as you conceive of it in your own subconscious, is the voice and the face of unreasoning punishment that can be lowered upon you without warning—the unpredictable punishment for crimes that you cannot remember having committed. [...]

[...] At the same time, however, you are also frightened of committing yourself to your belief and acting upon it wholeheartedly. [...]