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[...] Your good strides there, however, led to your momentary-enough concern with New York City’s economic fate. [...]

The marriage contract itself has had therefore a strong fate, for what you did spontaneously is now demanded and once it is demanded, you rebel. [...]

[...] You must want what is best for your own development and the development of others rather than specifically determining what you think consciously is better for you and then trying to force or coerce fate to get this for you. [...]

[...] In other words you are not fated, you see, to always chase this false image or project it outward. [...]

[...] The fate of each of us is in our own hands. [...]

[...] The fact that Ruburt experienced in the dream, or following it, no sense of either fateful predestination or even fear, was a tip-off that the dream was not clairvoyant in terms of a future prediction.

If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is. [...]

[...] To avoid this he adopts the symptoms, hoping to cheat his idea of the gods, or fate. [...]

[...] Even the idea of fate gave man something to act against, and roused him to action.

These other constructions are extremely important to the entity, and are also constructed for psychological purpose; and once constructed work out their own fate.

[...] (Now Jane, as Seth, pointed to Dave and Estelle) And yes, here, for another child—one who needs to be cherished and guarded and has a fate to fulfill in physical reality, who will need you. [...]

[...] And the individual has no control over his destiny for it can be swept aside at any point by random fate over which he has no recourse. [...]

When God went out the window for large masses of people, fate took His place (long pause), and volition also became eroded.

[...] It was not fated... [...]

[...] A coincidence — a mere trick of fate that Joseph could be walking through the old man’s home,² and that Mr. Markle would be spending his last time in a nursing home, as had Joseph’s mother — meaningless but evocative that this house was for sale, and that the old man was insisting upon a price higher than the house is worth, just as Joseph’s mother insisted upon a high price for her own home, and determined to get it.³ Period. [...]

This is, so far, your fate as far as probabilities and your own inclinations are concerned. [...]

I do not want you to feel that you are fated to experience certain events, however, for that is not the case. [...]

[...] Your main belief systems lead you to feel that your present life is singular, unsupported by any knowledge of prior experience with existence, and fated to be cut off or dead-ended without a future. [...]

[...] It was a time when unconventional patterns of thought, of unconventional expression, could have (fateful) consequences.

Otherwise, I thought, all too often the afflicted one is left with that great yawning “Why?” in the face of whatever drastic negative events are taking place; and those who suffer with the sufferer are as fated as the sufferer is to receive no satisfactory answers within their lifetimes, either. [...]

[...] You are small in relationship to the stars, also, but when you seek to place your fate in their hands, figuratively speaking, then it does seem as if you have little control over your own destiny.

(Last Friday Jane received a letter from Fate Magazine, to the effect that they would like to see, on speculation, an article dealing with Seth and the envelope experiments.

Then you feel as if you are the pawns of fate, and the idea of probable actions seems like the sheerest nonsense. [...]

[...] Surely very limited ones in linear terms, fated to never get beyond those incessant questions about what came before the beginning. [...]

(I’m happy to note that Seth’s ideas oppose much of the “modern” thinking that we’re fated to bring about our own end as a species, whether by nuclear warfare or in some other equally devastating way. [...]

[...] (In Volume 1, see Session 688, plus Note 2 for the same session.) The second law of thermodynamics, on the other hand, tell us that our universe is a closed system — and that it’s fated to eventually run down because the amount of energy available for useful work is always decreasing, even though the supply of that energy is constant. [...]