“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A foot doctor had committed suicide on the third floor several years ago, and October was the month of the deed. [...]

[...] That is, we can work on it if we want to, but with no thought of deadlines or signing a contract, which would commit Jane to additional public exposure. [...]

[...] Our will still commits us in case of accident, say, but that document can be changed.

[...] If our income dropped because we committed ourselves to no new books, the royalty and the interest on our savings would be much more than adequate to live on, for then state and federal taxes would melt away. [...]

He is, in a more basic manner than he may realize, deeply committed here. [...] Our other friend, to the contrary, is afraid of this ability, and distrusts it, and is not at all committed to the product that he sells.

[...] At the same time the whole personality is deeply committed and has always been, to such a psychic examination of existence. [...]

[...] If you follow this process say two-thirds of the way across, then you are more or less committed to go the other third of the way; committed in terms of your own good. [...]

[...] You are accountable for acts committed during projections, of course, and these alter the personality as any acts do. [...]

[...] I do admire that intense focus, that wholehearted commitment, and history offers plenty of examples—famous, too, if you will —of gifted individuals who lived their lives that way and made great contributions....

[...] To some extent capital punishment is the act of a fanatical society: The taking of the murderer’s life does not bring back the victim’s, and it does not prevent other men from [committing] such crimes. [...]

[...] It gives a steady abundance of energy when it approves of overall commitments. [...]

When you are discussing the nature of good and bad, you are on tricky ground indeed, for many — or most — of man’s atrocities to man have been committed in misguided pursuit of “the good.”

[...] Their long-term commitment is all important.

[...] Not only did other elements of the personality begin to deny it energy, but it—this grouping —also committed suicide, so to speak, sacrificing itself for the whole personality which it tried to serve.

[...] We learned among other things that Jane felt she had to hold off on new inspiration while we fulfilled existing commitments—schedules and contracts, etc., and that she wanted to help type “Unknown” Reality, Volume 2, presumably, I thought so that she could get it out of the way so she’d be free to go on to other things. [...]

[...] I am as committed to her as I am to breathing, and whatever we do comes after that. [...]

[...] No commitments have been made, and I’m anxious that Jane consider whether she even wants the interview, as well as the questions that would then arise, should she answer yes.

[...] John has already refused, he said, to commit himself re a promotion to Rochester. [...]

[...] Finally, the disparity between the time Seth-Jane had spent producing Volume 1 alone (around 45 hours), and my own commitment in ordinary time, became so great in my mind as to be almost overwhelming.

[...] It’s interesting to ask how even extensive accepted credentials would help her respond to the extremes of feeling with which she and Seth are sometimes greeted: the outright rejection or the sheer adulation — or the threats she receives on occasion from those who say they’ll commit suicide if Seth doesn’t come through with a session for them immediately.

[...] 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

Your mother represented the opposite in your mind—the emotionally explosive, suffocating immediacy, a female life and earthly ties, social commitment, homey chores and distractions that seemed to be directly opposed to solitary creativity.

At the same time I knew that Jane had some sort of deep commitment. [...] I was leery of responding too openly to her advances, though, since I didn’t know what her commitment was. [...]

[...] A commitment is required upon my part in this case: I think that Valerie’s message for me is from Jane. [...]