“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Otherwise you would know that language is dependent upon other implied ones; and that the two, or all of them, are themselves and yet inseparable, so closely connected that it is impossible to separate them even though your focus may be upon one language alone.

[...] She now amazed me by saying that she now thought she understood that if she turned her focus away from her symptoms toward Prentice, say, or any other “outside” entity or situation, that she could improve physically by giving her body the freedom to do so. [...]

(“This morning Jane said she was beginning to understand that if she turned her focus away from her symptoms, toward some place outside of herself, that she might improve by giving her body the freedom to do so. [...]

[...] Again, with the best of intentions, the focus of your pendulum sessions has not been of the best lately. [...]

[...] Such suggestions do direct your focus psychologically. [...]

[...] It actually represents an amazing ability to focus the complete inner energy. In other words, to command and focus the entire amount of energy inherent within the personality from the inner universe, and as such it must be used with discretion and discipline. [...]

[...] Ruburt represents, and is, a personality formed by that Seth which was myself, by focusing upon and using a peculiar set of attributes and abilities. [...]

[...] The giant strides necessary involve striding across one’s concerns over impediments, and focusing upon ends. [...]

[...] I replied that we’d better forget that and try to focus on the future — yet such guilt feelings could be playing a significant role in her daily life, and we should find out if this is so.

[...] It focuses your attentions individually and jointly, and acts as a psychological set that initiates proper help from other aspects of your beings.

[...] Return to the time and the place gladly, the way someone returns to home, but knowing in the back of your mind that there are many homes and many places and many times, but for now return your focuses, settling back gladly into the body. [...]

The body is always an alive, alert, responsive, ever-changing framework, fully focused in the present. [...]

[...] Just because you focus—

Just because your attention is no longer focused upon such realities, this does not mean that they do not continue to exist.

[...] Such exercises state and reinforce your intent, reinforce it through physical action, and the relaxation will set you free in your psychic endeavors, bringing your nightly dreams into clearer focus, because you are setting up consciously a better relationship between your mind and your body.

[...] This seemingly contradictory state of affairs may be the best evidence of all that Seth is truly what he says he is—“a personality energy essence, no longer focused in physical reality.”)

[...] You will change the past, your reaction to it, by vividly imagining happy hours that you refused to focus upon. [...]

The book became a sore point, and the focus in his work of the inner problem, a symbol. [...]

[...] “If you don’t like the reality you’ve created, change your focus. [...]

You might think of a tragic opera, or a musical composition, and so some lives focus upon intensities whose form is not perceived, and which deals with a kind of power that is itself the experience. [...]

[...] An effort should be made to involve the young woman in whatever activity is possible, to focus her attention away from her condition. [...]

[...] I am merely encouraging you to focus your joint energies in that direction … You will be dealing with symbols, yet you will learn that symbols are reality, for you are symbols of yourselves that live and speak. [...]

[...] He will consciously and unconsciously focus upon that part of the body, anticipating its malfunction. [...]

[...] This is often carried so far that no food seems perfectly satisfying, and the concentration becomes focused upon the fear of food, rather than upon its benefits.

[...] Your focus allows other just-as-legitimate experience to become invisible or unfelt.

[...] Biologically and psychically these are intersections, coming-togethers, consciousness adopting a focus.

[...] This is only because you focus upon those actions that “make sense” in your reality, and ignore all others. [...]

[...] As earlier mentioned,⁴ the conscious self generally focuses in but one small dimension. [...] That dimension is experienced as fully as possible, its clear brilliance and exquisite focus possible only because you tune in to it and bring it to the forefront of your attention. [...]

[...] While focused within that living scene you can learn to travel through it, leaving the “surface” picture intact and whole. [...]

[...] And I remembered things I’d written in old Contents of the Mind notes about how we form focuses through which we then experience reality.... [...]