“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I will not tell you ahead of time what experience you can expect but follow through upon the next instance as I suggest. [...]

[...] I said it was very good indeed — just what I’d expected and hoped for. [...]

[...] To expect the physical benefits first can indeed close off the very spiritual and psychic development.

[...] Do not expect too much too soon.

[...] He has of course improved, and in general strength, since returning home—but in the hospital nothing was demanded or expected of him. [...]

(“You sure did a lot more tonight than you expected to, though, didn’t you?”

[...] The dying expected certain procedures to occur in a more or less orderly fashion. [...]

[...] He was a very likable chap, and under the circumstances I did not mind when he seemed to expect a battle for his soul. [...]

[...] She was highly amused at the plight of the clergymen of different faiths, who had died, because the circumstances were so different than those they had expected.

A certain distortion must be expected. [...]

[...] Whatever energy was being used, I decided, it was certainly more than I expected myself capable of that night. [...]

[...] You hypnotize your very nerves, and the cells within your body, for they will react as you expect them to react, and the beliefs of your conscious mind are followed in degree by all portions of the self down to the smallest atom and molecule. [...]

[...] It’s what I expected, I told her. [...]

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]

Some of this has to do with fear and expectation, and the fact that your mother had false teeth. [...]

[...] At first it may not seem to be giving you the results you expect, but you are working within spacious time. [...]

(4:30 p.m. I hadn’t expected the quick ending to the session, since I’d thought there were some rather important topics Jane could have discussed, such as the reasons for the temperature increase. [...]

[...] Doctors expect vision to [begin to] fail, for example, after the age of 30, and there are countless patient records that “prove” that such disintegration is indeed a biological fact.

[...] And because [the body] is a machine, it is expected to decay after so much usage.

You expect yourself to be a great artist, lost in the intricacies of what you think of as an artistic emotional reality, innocent of any interfering intellectuality. [...]

You expect yourselves to be different people than you are—not appreciating at all the abilities and characteristics that you do possess, but forever weighing them against other abilities and characteristics that you have told yourselves you should possess.

[...] So you can expect some laughter shortly (amused). [...]

(“Your readers certainly don’t expect that of you,” I said, explaining that I was keeping in mind Seth’s recent statement that both of us had decided upon our joint experiences, wanting and not wanting the symptoms at the same time. [...]

(I had two questions which I explained to Jane, without necessarily expecting Seth to go into them tonight.

Between lives an individual may see flashes of the future existence, not necessarily of particular events, but experience the essence of the new relationship and in expectation remind himself of the challenge he has set. [...]

[...] Now when you form it you do so with the inner realization that it reaches from you outward and you expect something to be on the other side, or the bridge would be useless. [...]

Now: For these reasons I have not wanted you to put too much strain upon Adam, to expect him to be this other personality, or to berate him by comparing him to such another personality. [...]

If, however, you expect too much of him without giving time for this structure to form, you drain him of energy and not the other way around. [...]

Your Ruburt saw a car, was expecting your friend, had imagined my comment, and leaped to the lightning fast conclusion, along with a rather flattering desire to prove me supposedly right in an instance that could be checked. [...]

You should not, and I repeat this, grow panicky at the thought of distortions occurring, simply because to expect no distortions is just as unrealistic, and would send you flying headlong against an eventual wall of disillusion. [...]

[...] But humor aside, you cannot start out without expecting some difficulties along the way, and in this most difficult area of communication particularly. [...]

[...] Under such conditions it seems only rational to look for the worm in the apple, so to speak, and to expect pain or danger in each new experience or encounter.

[...] I hadn’t expected anything, but her Seth voice was surprisingly good and strong in spite of everything.)