“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is only because your present existence is so highly focused in one narrow area that you put such stern limits upon your definitions and the self, and then project these upon your concepts of the soul. [...]

[...] Art is his focus so that he draws from Framework 2 all of those pertinent data that are necessary for his painting. [...]

[...] That was some 18 months ago, but actually to one degree or another I’ve been involved with “Unknown” Reality for four years now; I think that temporarily I’ve simply grown tired and overly concerned about the whole project, even while I still have a considerable way to go to finish certain notes and appendixes for Volume 2. Not that I haven’t worked on a number of other things at the same time, of course — but my labors on those two books represent the prolonged, intense focus I always search for in my creative life, and without which I feel incomplete. [...]

[...] I tried writing it down so that I could read it to Jane: “Why did the personality adopt a course of action—being out of condition, say—that eventually came to assume such proportions in life that the focus upon it equaled, or even surpassed, the hours spent in the creative actions of writing that the personality said it wanted to do each day above everything else?”

[...] The antagonism he had for testing came not from the idea itself, as much as from the idea of focusing upon detail for detail’s sake. [...]

[...] I give Ruburt access to large fields of focus. [...]

[...] Somewhere a narrowing-down process must occur to give it a more specific focus.

[...] And for their grimly creative focus of revolutionary consciousness they unabashedly take full credit.

[...] His focus is much too limited.

Man’s focus is equally limited in perception theory, which is a deadly psychological game played by the United States and Russia. [...]

[...] He is focusing on us, however (pause), trying to send us a message about a round object and a piece of paper, that is written on about a third of the way down, with neat indentation, perhaps five lines or so.

[...] Jane said that while she sat silently she felt as though Seth was somehow focusing “sideways” on the candle.

You simply are not focused within it, or your attention is not focused within it. [...]

[...] As explained in my book, various levels of concentration can be used as platforms leading you out of focus, into other time schemes. [...] You are merely focusing upon one hue. [...]

Now, mankind lacks such a focus. The third personality will represent that focus. [...]

You stopped worrying about your car, and focusing upon it and upon its age and condition. [...]

It was an excellent display of intense focus of energy and utilization of materials. [...]

While you go about your daily chores and endeavors, beneath normal waking consciousness you are constantly focused in other realities also, reacting to stimuli of which your physical conscious self is not aware, perceiving conditions through the inner senses, and experiencing events that are not even registered within the physical brain. [...]

[...] His craft or art of writing brought the material to clear focus. [...]

[...] They are looking for a rational pattern large enough to contain and explain and focus their own misunderstood creativity.

[...] It must be clearly understood however that these other portions of the self are incapable of the ego’s intense focus within physical reality. Their focus is elsewhere. [...]

[...] He knew you were not a Sunday painter, but he felt you were greatly repressed in your work, and that any breakthrough could only come when you focused upon it, your work, regardless of other consequences.

[...] Your best energies were going into your work, he felt, at the job, not into painting, and the very focus divided you. [...]

[...] Such an emphasis can lead to a focus upon obstacles that stand in the way, and this reinforces the negative condition.”

“The whole focus of the personality can shift from constructive areas to a concentration of main energies in the area of the impeding action, or illness. [...]

[...] Gradually the personality’s mental focus leaves this life and begins to operate entirely on another level. [...]

[...] It is the daily ego’s ignorance and limited focus that makes it view so-called unconscious activity as chaotic.

[...] I think in intensities, and curb my tendency in order to focus more specifically.