“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt has been feeling new, strong surges of desire — desire for normal health, normal motion, energy, and strength. Those feelings are also meant to be used as impetuses to lead him in the proper directions, so that indeed those desires are fulfilled. [...]

[...] In this existence, when you see a picture in your mind, and when there is strong emotion and vivid desire behind it, it will be constructed. [...]

([Tom:] “We should desire good health because it makes it possible for us to do something else... [...]

You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being. [...]

[...] [Tom:] “My interpretation of what he said is that (1) good health is a natural part of ourselves, and so we should naturally desire it, and (2) good health in itself is not the objective at all. [...]

[...] In this existence, when you see a picture in your mind, and when there is strong emotion and vivid desire behind it, it will be constructed. [...]

([Theodore:] “We should desire good health because it makes it possible for us to do something else—to serve or perform some other role—”)

You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being. [...]

[...] [Theodore:] “My interpretation of what he said is that (1) good health is a natural part of ourselves, and so we should naturally desire it, and (2) good health in itself is not the objective at all. [...]

[...] They also feel an eager desire to learn all they can about their own physical sensations and capabilities.

[...] Children often know quite well the reasons for some of their illnesses, for often they learn from their parents that illness can be used as a means to achieve a desired result.

[...] So if the parents begin such questioning and reassurance when the child is young, then the youngster will learn that while illness may be used to attain a desired result, there are far better, healthier ways of achieving an end result.

It however retains its identity, you see, while partaking to the extent of its desire and ability in the superior aspects of this greater gestalt. Even as you, according to your desire and ability, can partake of the superior qualities of your supraself.

[...] It is the desired and sought-after model against which you psychically measure your present self.

[...] There are many schools for spiritual advancement that teach you to “get rid of the clutter of your impulses and desires,” to shove aside the self that you are in search of a greater idealized version. [...]

If you would know yourself in deepest terms, you must start with your own feelings, emotions, desires, intents and impulses. [...]

Some people are only aware of — or largely aware of — impulses toward anger, because they have inhibited those natural impulses toward love that would otherwise temper what seemed to be aggressive desires. [...]

[...] The inner self is not remote, either — not divorced from your most intimate desires and affairs, but instead communicates through your own smallest gesture, through your smallest ideal.

If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is. Desire may grow into expectation, but alone it is not enough. [...]

While many of your expectations are formed in childhood, no switch is really stuck in one position, and it is your prerogative to channel your emotional energy into whatever pattern for action you desire. [...] Not your desires but your expectations, for you will only construct physically that environment which you believe capable of construction. [...]

[...] I admit that I tried in some ways to influence you both; but without your acceptance, and practical acceptance, of this idea of owning property and house, and I do mean practical, signature on the dotted line acceptance, you would have gotten nowhere with your desire for a home of your own.

[...] You had to see in concrete terms exactly what your expectations were, and the house represented at that time the height of your expectations, if not the height of your desire.

[...] This particular latent biological ability shows itself only upon the rarest instances — because, for one thing, it represents a feat now scarcely desirable. [...]

In times of overpopulation, this mechanism is hardly desirable, but it is a part of the species held in abeyance now, representing nature’s capabilities. [...]

[...] The male, then, is thought to want sex whether or not he has any love response to the woman in question — or sometimes to desire her precisely because he does not love her. [...]

So women, accepting these ideas often, seek for a situation in which they too can feel free to express their sexual desires openly, whether or not any love is involved. [...]

[...] Man experiences ambitions, desires, likes and dislikes of a highly emotional nature — and at the same time he has intellectual beliefs about himself, his feelings, and the world. [...]

One person may desire fame, and even possess certain abilities that he or she wants to use, and that will indeed lead to that claim. [...]

[...] Your intent to find a mate sends out “strands of consciousness,” however, composed of desire and intent. [...]

Sometimes a particular desire, as when he does estimates, will allow him to work unimpeded, because in that area experience has shown him that his estimates are usually more or less correct. [...]

[...] Ruburt simply identified with too-small a portion of himself, not realizing that left alone his abilities would draw from Framework 2 all that was required for their fulfillment—all of the impulses, desires, and circumstances. [...]

(The infinite intelligence which gave me this desire to paint leads, guides, and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. [...]

“I have the simple, profound faith that anything I desire in this life can come to me from Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Framework 2 can creatively produce everything I desire to have in Framework 1 — my excellent health, painting, and writing, my excellent relationship with Jane, Jane’s own spontaneous and glowing physical health and creativity, the greater and greater sales of all her books. I know that all of these positive goals are worked out in Framework 2, regardless of their seeming complexity, and that they can then show themselves in Framework 1. I have the simple, profound faith that everything I desire in life can come to me from the miraculous workings of Framework 2. I do not need to be concerned with details of any kind, knowing that Framework 2 possesses the infinite creative capacity to handle and produce everything I can possibly ask of it. [...]

Such events occur as a result of individual beliefs, desires, and intents. [...]

[...] Certain prerequisites must be met, you see, before a desired end can become physically experienced.

In terms of simple biological function, you now had a species no longer completely dependent upon instinct, yet still with all the natural built-in desires for survival, and the appearance within it of a mind able to make decisions and distinctions.

[...] Good and evil, the desirable and the less so, were invaluable aids then in helping form the basis for such separations.

[...] You may follow one of the schools of Buddhism in which great stress is laid upon the denial of the body, discipline of the flesh, and the avoidance of desire. [...]

[...] In some such cases, all of the desirable human attributes are magnified and projected outward into a god or superconsciousness, while all the less admirable characteristics are left to the race and the individual.

[...] The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up — intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression.

There is a natural impulse to die on the part of men and animals, but in such circumstances [as we are discussing here] that desire becomes the only impulse that the individual feels able to express, for it seems that all other avenues of expression have become closed. [...]

[...] Each person is fired by the desire to act, and to act beneficially, altruistically (intently), to practically put his stamp, or her stamp, upon the world. [...]

[...] Again, the desire and motivation to act is so strong within each person that it will not be denied, and when it is denied then it can be expressed in a perverted form. [...]

Man does have an instinct and a desire to live, and he has an instinct and a desire to die. [...]

[...] They are endowed with the desire for creativity, and to increase the quality of existence.

[...] All of your dreams somewhere waken, but when they do they waken with the desire for creativity themselves, and they are born of an innocent new intent. [...]

The desire for life has been most flaunted, yet human psychology has seldom dealt with the quite active desire for death. In its natural form this is not a morbid, frightened, neurotic, or cowardly attempt to escape life, but a definite, positive, “healthy” acceleration of the desire for survival, in which the individual strongly wants to leave physical life as once the child wanted to leave the parent’s home.

[...] Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. [...]

(11:44.) I am not speaking here of the desire for suicide, which involves a definite killing of the body by self-deliberate means — often of a violent nature. Ideally this desire for death, however, would simply involve the slowing of the body’s processes, the gradual disentanglement of psyche from flesh; or in other instances, according to individual characteristics, a sudden, natural stopping of the body’s processes.

[...] It involves great sweeping psychological attitudes on the part of many, and meets the needs and desires of those involved — needs which, in your terms, arise in a framework of religious, psychological and cultural realities that cannot be isolated from biological results.

[...] Little is said about the personality’s innate desire for drama, the kind of inner spiritual drama in which an individual can feel part of a purpose that is his own, and yet is greater than himself.

[...] His true instincts lead him spontaneously toward the desire to better the quality of his own life and that of others. [...]

[...] Her desire to attend a spectacular ball, and meet the prince, initiates a series of magical events, none following the dictates of logic. [...]

The tale has always appealed to children because they recognize the validity behind it.² The fairy godmother is a creative personification of the personalized elements in Framework 2 — a personification therefore of the inner ego, that rises to the aid of the mortal self to grant its desires, even when the intents of the mortal self may not seem to fit into the practical framework of normal life. [...]

[...] The child carries with him [or her] the impetus and supporting energy provided him at birth from Framework 2, and he knows intuitively that desires conducive to his development “happen” easier than those that are not. [...]

[...] His desire and intense intent to understand more of the nature of reality triggered the production of that fragmentary automatic manuscript. [...]

[...] Desire is important. [...] But a month or so ago he did not feel those desires.

His natural desire to write will quickly return full blast when he stops worrying about it. [...]

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