“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The individual insists upon growing or upon death, and forces an artificial situation in which growth itself becomes physically disastrous.

Now: Love is a biological necessity, a force operating to one degree or another in all biological life. [...]

[...] To some extent or another, then, the male feels forced to divide the expression of his love from the expression of his sexuality. [...]

You cannot pervert them by trying to force them to serve purposes that you have set up as a condition of existence. [...]

[...] You have set your own problems, but the life force is not entirely yours. [...]

[...] You cannot force it and you cannot set conditions.

It can fulfill you and others, and bring you unimagined fulfillment, but never when you attempt to force it to follow certain directions. [...]

[...] There are no forces outside of yourselves that in your terms cause you to do evil. Unfortunately, what you think of as good and evil reside within yourselves, and you cannot blame an evil force for the destruction that runs rampant across the earth. [...]

(During break, Ron got into a discussion with Brady about good and evil and forces involved.)

[...] We are not speaking here of forced growth patterns, or of psychic or biological directions, impressed upon it so that any later divergence from them causes inevitable stress or pain. [...]

New paragraph: As simply put as possible, love is the force out of which being comes, and we will consider this statement much more thoroughly later in this book. [...]

[...] They feel forced to imitate what they think the natural male or female is like, and on occasion end up with ludicrous caricatures. [...]

[...] Instruments may be used to force imagination to move along in terms of its owner’s personal memories, but it cannot be forced to move along the lines of conceptual thoughts because the imagination is a connective between the physical individual and the nonphysical entity.

[...] Because man has such a sense of curiosity, scientists will be forced finally to use the inner senses. [...]

You are forced to transform this creative energy into another camouflage pattern because of your earthly situation. [...]

[...] That is, any camouflage is a distortion in the sense that vitality is forced into a particular form. [...]

[...] We saw the first session, in which the Carter forces, who wanted a “closed” convention, defeated the Kennedy forces, who wanted an “open” convention.

Now those tendencies are not natural to the intellect, but only appear when it is forced to operate in such an isolated fashion — isolated not only in time and space, but psychologically isolated from other portions of the personality that are meant to bring it additional information that it does not possess, and a kind of magical support.

[...] I am not saying that I do not use analogies often, or that I am not forced at times into symbolic statements, but when I am I always say so, and even those statements are my best representations of facts too large for your definitions. [...]

[...] You still — and I do not simply mean you two alone — do not feel the unsurpassable force that thoughts have. [...]

[...] To our surprise we discovered that it required an active pressure from us to force the table back down to the floor so that all three legs made contact. The feeling of this force was unmistakable, and new to all of us. [...] Whatever force is operating in such cases of repulsion is invisible, but unmistakably there.

[...] In spite of all problems, the life force operates continually in each person’s life, and can bring about at any time the most profound, beneficial changes. The idea is to clear the mind as much as possible from beliefs that impede the fine, smooth workings of the life force, and to actively encourage those beliefs and attitudes that promote health and the development of all aspects of healing experience.

[...] It should be helpful, and certainly somewhat comforting, to realize that even unfortunate birth conditions were not forced upon you by some outside agency, but chosen at inner levels of your own reality.

Instead, it should be realized that as uncomfortable as suffering is, it does somehow have a meaning in the context of your entire existence — again, that it was not thrust upon you by some unjust or uncaring exterior force or nature.

[...] (With emphasis:) Aggression in the most basic terms has nothing to do with physical violence as you think of it, but with the force through which love is perpetuated and creatively renewed.

[...] You will be forced to dilute your own experience. [...]

You will automatically begin to inhibit any stimulus that might bring about forceful emotions, and so deny yourself needed feedback. [...]

[...] Man loved nature, identified with its many parts, and added to his own sense of being by joining into its power and identifying with its force.

[...] He did not symbolically rage with the storms, for example, but quite consciously identified with them to such a degree that he and his tribesmen merged with the wind and lightning, and became a part of the storms’ forces. [...]

(Long pause at 10:26.) You are robbed, then, or you rob yourselves, of one of the most basic kinds of expression, since you can no longer identify yourselves with the forces of nature. [...]

[...] To abandon yourself, then, to the power of your own life, is to rely upon the great forces within and yet beyond nature that gave birth to the universe and to you.

This feeling of abandoning oneself to the power and force of one’s own life does not lead to a mental segregation, but instead allows the self to sense the part that it plays in the creative drama of a universe. [...]

[...] You would not force yourself to work on those occasions, for your natural need for play of some kind —outings or guests—would then assert themselves. [...]

[...] It is silly, however, in the same way to force yourself to concentrate at a time when you really yearn for activity. [...]

[...] Gap between (t no) ego and subconscious, vital forces escape. [...]

[...] But later, after thinking it over, she said it could be the reason or motivating force behind her own explanation.

[...] They were forced to face the aftermath. [...]

[...] On symbolic levels a flood represents a washing away of the old, of course, the sweeping power and energy of unconscious forces and the resulting emergence of new birth. [...]

(Forcefully, and with a smile:) Period, and take your break.

[...] The person is forced to find fresh, more original solutions. [...]

[...] For many centuries creativity itself was firmly directed by Christianity, and to some extent (underlined) Christianity brings with it an air of uneasiness for society—to the extent that any original thought or insight must indeed imply an intrusive force to a world that must exist in a rare balance that is the result of preserving old values and obtaining new knowledge. [...]

[...] Its reconciling forces no longer really operate, and only its rough edges show. [...]

[...] A healing process is definitely involved, even with the initial emergence of the symptoms, for the psychological system finally forces the problem out into the open. [...]

[...] The explosive first emergence represented the first forceful emergence of the problem into physical terms, but as such was actually productive and of a healing nature—much more beneficial, say, than if such emergence had not occurred.

[...] In many cases the other is a younger individual who is more resilient, has more energy, a more instinctive use of the life force, who is better able to bear the problems for the whole unit, and who will actually escape from them. [...]

[...] It is not the fact of the taxes so much that annoys you, as the uses of the taxes, for you resent “being forced” to contribute your money to what you think of as stupid national policies.

[...] Unimpeded expression of the ideal, however, is the most powerful force in the world, and cannot be impeded. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery had been animated and forceful throughout the session, with many obvious overtones of humor. [...]

Now you stand, or you sit, in the middle of forces that are a part of you. These are not alien forces of which we speak, these are not things that happen to you. They are forces that emanate from your own being and you can, to some extent, become aware of them. [...]

(During break Kyle asked why Seth came through so forcefully.)

[...] They are forcing the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time to change your ways. [...]

These rigid ideas can indeed act as leashes, so that you are forced to circle like a tied puppy dog about a very small radius. [...]

[...] There is nothing outside of yourself that will force you to understand these issues or face them.