“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Particularly since the minds of men and women (with humor)—are not so focused upon the physical evidence of the world, so that in a strange fashion the “burden” of that evidence is less, and there is some built-in advantage. [...]

[...] At the same time he described the object the Gallaghers were focusing upon in their home outside of Elmira at session time. [...]

[...] It is true that you focus within the physical system mainly, yet the inner self is highly mobile and embarks simultaneously upon a variety of projections. [...]

[...] He had the ability, very strong creative energies, but he did not have the idea or principle to unite him as a personality and focus his energies. [...]

[...] You need concentration and focus and a strong impetus, and you can develop these and use them. [...]

(9:01.) I will help you initiate a time of new dedication, so that these feelings and ideas become focused even more effectively in your lives. [...]

[...] These probable selves, however, are a portion of your identity or soul, and if you are out of contact with them it is only because you focus upon physical events and accept them as the criteria for reality.

[...] In view of all of those early enjoyable events she’d had, I suggested she try focusing on them in times of stress, instead of the negative ones we usually talk about. [...]

[...] Yet the world is so smooth and unseamed when you’re in the body and focused there.

[...] Projection from a dream is something else again, and when executed successfully, you have a fine example of the self as it changes the focus of awareness. [...]

[...] There must be a disciplined focus, therefore, of this propellant. [...]

[...] Jane:] Part of me feels that the symptoms are an acceptable even ingenious way of seeing that distractions are cut to a minimum; to focus my abilities, like a kid getting a cold to stay in, but more sophisticated, cuts through the necessity for explanations, etc. [...]

[...] [But he could have chosen somebody else and he chose me because I had these ideas about work, wouldn’t threaten him with kids, make him get a regular job, keep us focused, etc. [...]

[...] The spontaneity often, though not always, helps to focus his abilities, and provides us with an excellent trance state. [...]

[...] It was not focused in work. [...]

[...] Only the focus is different. [...]

Illness as a Way of Focus — an Organizer of Experience Conversion, love, etc., as alternate organizers.

The awareness is focused along certain lines. The energy is likewise focused. [...]

[...] It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand, and on the other hand it focuses the usable portion of its energy into being a tree. [...]

[...] Because you focus upon similarities of necessity, then the physical world possesses its coherence.⁵

Give us a moment … Joseph’s focus of identity is his own. [...]

[...] In it I quote Seth from the class session for June 23, 1970, as excerpted in the Appendix for Seth Speaks: “In this reality, [each of] you very nicely emphasize all the similarities which bind you together; you make a pattern of them, and you very nicely ignore all the dissimilarities … If you were able to focus your attention on the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality.”

You focus accounts from diverse sources. [...]

[...] You could also focus such investments so that they could help the community at large. [...]

(Pause.) The achievements therefore must be kept in mind; not only are they not focused upon, but they are often forgotten. [...]

[...] An intense focus, even an exaggeration of normal tendencies. [...]

More than this however, your abilities and your challenges will appear to you in a much clearer light, and uncluttered focus. [...]

[...] It is a privilege to be here, to look out with this unique focus, with these individual eyes; not to be blinded by cosmic vision, but to see this corner of reality which I form through the miraculous connections of soul and flesh.

[...] There are ways to bring the picture into focus: There are ways to tune into those other quite-natural frequencies, so that they present you with a more expansive view both of the world as you define it, and of its greater aspects. [...]