“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] For example, if his present expectations are faulty, when the ego rests, he may recreate a time when expectations were high. The resulting dream will partially break the circle of poor expectations with their shoddy physical constructions and start such an individual along a constructive path. In other words, a dream may begin to transform the physical environment through lifting inner expectation.

As an individual creates his physical image and environment according to his abilities and defects, and in line with his expectations and inner needs, so does he create his dreams; and these interact with the outer environment.

[...] I do not expect all people to be wise. I do expect all people to be different, to display abilities and characteristics of a highly diverse nature, and to be highly creative. [...]

Psychics, loosely speaking, are expected to play the game, and with publishers. [...]

[...] If you read our early material, you will see that your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own expectations. [...]

[...] If you continually expect any individual to behave in a particular manner, then you are constantly sending him telepathic suggestions that he will do so. [...]

[...] By 8:30, when she’d finished doing the dishes, the overall soreness had dissipated to some degree, but she appeared to be so groggy with relaxation that I hardly expected her to want to have a session. [...]

[...] And the last thing I’d expected of Jane tonight was any material on religion from Seth. [...]

[...] I still expect to meet you in an out-of-body state. [...]

Some automatic painting can be expected along this line with our student here. [...]

[...] Since childhood, he expected later life to make up for any privations suffered earlier. [...]

(“Yeah, but I don’t expect him to pay for anything.”)

(We’ve lost the old sense of freedom we had with Prentice-Hall, where we can just do our work, ship it to them, and expect it to be well handled, with royalties paid every so often and a trust both felt and expressed between the two sides. [...] I for one am in favor of taking a stand, as Jane well knows, but as I’ve told her, I don’t expect her to go along. [...]

(So as I write this on Wednesday morning at 11:20 we expect to receive from Tam today a “care package,” as he put it, of the latest correspondence involving our foreign hassles. [...]

[...] As a rule, however, it is foolhardy to expect them to have a sense of the artist’s values, whatever the art may be, and then to become upset when they do not live up to that picture. [...]

[...] It became abundantly clear that she was going to lose the tooth a couple of days ago, as it began to visibly descend from its socket; I could see it wobble in its socket as we ate breakfast Friday morning, and she expected to lose it at any minute. [...]

[...] She halfway expected it, as you both unconsciously realized. [...]

[...] Of course, you would not be the same people—but your understanding and knowledge has drastically changed the future that could have been expected, say, from your backgrounds in this life, now.

[...] You allowed yourselves to feel enthusiasm and expectation, and you fired each other. [...]

[...] And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

I will return to the consideration of expectation and physical health, as from Ruburt’s specific situation there is much general knowledge to be gained.

[...] So it seemed to Ruburt that the books were not considered to be enough: he was expected to do all of those other things beside. [...]

[...] All of this made him feel that he was not living up to expectations, that he was to some extent a failure for not doing all of those things. [...]

[...] I do not expect you to drown in that pool, for I have taught you how to swim, you see. [...]

[...] And often when you do not expect me. [...]

Now I expect your joint and individual exuberance to spread in all areas of your life now—freely—but you must begin those lists and you must take what I have said this afternoon to heart, not bury it in the records.

Again, my congratulations, and I expect you to congratulate me.

[...] So I expect you will have a busy week and I also expect that we will have a busy class next week. [...]

[...] To our considerable surprise, much in the essays has turned out to be not what one might expect, and Jane disagrees with a number of points therein. She’s found Hoyle to be, in an odd way, more “unimaginative” than she expected, and strangely idiosyncratic and even dogmatic.

[...] But aim for the normal situation, both of you, in your expectations and in your mind.

[...] (The whole series has taken much longer than I expected it to, though.) I only know that Jane began to sing in very melodious tones that flowed through the house. [...]

[...] There have been many expectations held in abeyance because you did not feel sure that Ruburt would recover, so your mental attitudes will change.

[...] You can expect further improvements with Ruburt. [...]

[...] You cannot expect a blissful time innocent of problems. [...]

On your return I expect you to concentrate your energies in both of your works, then in maintaining communication. [...]

[...] Physical improvement, now, in that context (underlined), meant something else you were demanding, but did not expect.

[...] You were not pleased with his performance, he was not living up to your expectations. [...]