“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt was so certain not to block anything that he did not let me focus clearly enough, but that is all right for now. [...]

[...] For our friend however the inner self has been overly involved with wandering, and but lightly held within the limits of the intense focus demanded by physical reality. [...]

[...] Not only that, but the economic need itself was important, helping to focus those abilities to some degree, to the needs and desires of others as well as himself.

However, let us remember that when creating and experiencing a challenge, on any scale, consciousness may choose a predominantly positive or negative focus, or it may seek to achieve a balance. [...]

[...] You can close your physical eyes and focus upon these other realities in which you also have your existence. [...]

Ruburt wanted to have a strong emotional nature in order to relate with other people, and yet also wanted to control and focus that nature so that it would also be directed toward his purpose. [...]

[...] They are focused consciousnesses, surely, each one feeling itself at life’s center. [...]

[...] You have only to open your focus of attention and they will become apparent to you. [...]

[...] You are simply using it in a different fashion, and focusing it — however briefly — in another direction. [...]

According to Seth, our own desires, focuses, and intents dictate what inner information we draw from the endless fields available; for he sees all knowledge existing at once, not as dry data or records, but enlivened by the consciousness that perceives it. [...]

Now, changing the coordinates does involve a shifting of inner focus and an extension of the inner senses. [...]

[...] Characteristically, I operated in ways that resulted often in the primary use of my left hand when I was focused in physical matter.

[...] It must necessarily focus within the confines of physical reality. [...]

I was totally alert and critical at the time, focused at a high point of concentration, though, in that all of my attention was pivoted expectantly. [...]

Attention can be shifted from any physical moment to any probable moment by a sideways parallel imaginative thrust, a sideling off of focus, if the mind can get over its fear of dying to itself.

[...] You are denying the body’s corporeal existence and its focus in the time of the seasons, and cheating yourself of those natural biological, psychic, and mental motions that are meant to take you past themselves.

[...] Not only is consciousness to be focused to the external reality, but within those limits it is still further harnessed toward certain specific goals. [...]

A few days earlier, knowing he had progressed, he ceased doing the psycho-cybernetics exercises however, and these are an excellent and enjoyable way of focusing conscious energy in constructive directions. [...]

[...] There comes a time when the experiences of the person in the world click together and form a new clearer focus, provide a new psychological framework from which his or her greatest capacities can emerge to form a new synthesis. [...]

[...] Granted that certain individuals could choose to pursue certain goals and challenges even through the point of physical death, never relaxing that focus; still, most did not. [...]

[...] He must remember to focus within the present. [...]

[...] It helps to focus your inner concentration along the desired lines. [...]