“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Any true success must come through your own efforts, for no other success has any meaning at all. When you have achieved reachable goals then you will have the strength and freedom to follow through, and ability to achieve goals that are more difficult. There is a dangerous tendency here that should be mentioned, and it is this: you must not blame others when you do not achieve your goals.

For many reasons this is not best for you, nor is it what you really want. But in working toward a goal that is very distant, a goal that will be extremely difficult for you to achieve, you feel subconsciously that you will be excused from failure; if you fail you can then say that it was because so many obstacles were in your way.

You are very afraid of failure—hardly any crime—many are afraid of failure. But this causes you to avoid goals that you have a good possibility of achieving. If a goal is attainable and you fail to attain it, you see, then you feel you would have to blame yourself—and again, you do not want to accept the consequences of your own action.

[...] Through the years the goals of one level of consciousness— though I am putting this simply—became tied to the goals of another level of consciousness. [...]

I am not, as you should know, saying that the goal of financial success is a low one. Unfortunately, however, the beliefs connected with that goal usually involve whole webworks of beliefs that would automatically prevent high creativity. [...]

[...] When you began to expand your ideas of reality, you naturally attached them to goals that you held earlier, and tried to make them fit. Some of those goals were quite worthy, but carried beliefs along with them that were detrimental.

In far greater terms, the goals set consciously by your species also set into operation the same kind of inner biological activity. The goals of the species do not exist apart from individual goals. [...]

[...] The beliefs of the conscious mind, however, set your goals and purposes. “You” are the one who decides to walk across the floor, and then all of these inner calculations take place to help you achieve your goal. [...]

(Pause.) Those goals are usually conceptualized desires, and once formed they act in a fashion like magnets, drawing from those vast fields of interrelatedness the kinds of conditions best suited to their fulfillment. The intellect alone cannot bring about the fulfillment of those goals. [...]

When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement. Consider a hypothetical goal as a target. [...]

[...] Then it can make the most beneficial decisions as to what goals you want to achieve.

This is for a definite schedule on his part for a while, that will channel his energy in creative goals, and also toward some physical goals—and incidentally away from the symptoms.

She does not understand your goals. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Let me emphasize the author’s point: state your goals. [...]

Sometimes they may not appear to be directly concerned with your goals, but underneath there may be connections that you cannot see on a conscious level.

[...] This means that in your inner self you have a clear idea of the goals which Ruburt, for many reasons, some quite legitimate, hides from his practical self.

[...] It shows the two of you again with common goals, working together.

An individual will often be striving for some goal that appears blocked, and hence he or she uses all available energy and strength to circumnavigate the blockage. [...]

[...] On examination of her own thoughts and beliefs, she might well discover that she was so frightened of not achieving her own goals that she actually encouraged her husband’s alcoholism, so that she would not have to face her own “failure.”

[...] You set yourselves, if you will forgive me, eternal goals. [...] In larger terms, however, your goals are not temporal, so do not become overly concerned—overly—with temporal considerations. [...]

[...] The other ideas I mentioned, to some extent now cast an unclear light, so that the attitudes they evoke are in conflict with your original, most persuasive goals.

My comments this evening are simply made in response to my knowledge of your original goals, and Ruburt’s. Only in their light are those other attitudes detrimental.

As I will tell you, these goals have strong connections in past lives, and in this life you each gave yourselves powerful psychological charges to insure that these goals would be followed through. [...]

The both of you, individually, have several goals in common, therefore as a couple you are doubly strong in these areas. [...]

[...] Both of you decided that you would have no children, not only because this fit in with the first goal, but because the energy connected with family life would go into your creative productions, would be saved and available when you began to embark upon the psychic work for which you had also planned.

[...] I knew that all of these positive goals are worked out in Framework 2, regardless of their seeming complexity, and that they can then show themselves in Framework 1. I have the simple, profound faith that everything I desire in life can come to me from the miraculous workings of Framework 2. I do not need to be concerned with details of any kind, knowing that Framework 2 possesses the infinite creative capacity to handle and produce everything I can possibly ask of it. [...]

You did not seek goals that could be reached easily by anyone, or even goals that you yourselves could be certain of attaining. [...]

Had your goals previous to your psychic experiences been adequate to your natures, and sufficient to you, nothing else would have developed—nor would you have been seeking so avidly answers to the kinds of questions that then and now concern you.

[...] There were also goals of his own. [...]

[...] To that extent he could not be content until he felt that your goals as well as his own were being met.

In this confusion of thoughts and fears, the goal of Ruburt’s recovery, or even of a considerable improvement within a foreseeable period of time, is lost. [...] See the goal as certainly possible. [...]

(I do believe that I haven’t made enough of an effort to inform Jane of feelings and goals of mine that I seem to have taken for granted. [...]

[...] It took me years to learn that she regarded her work in the psychic field—and the time and energy involved—as aside from her main creative goal, which is to write “straight” literature that is also art.)

[...] I had no idea of the bitterness or the depths of her resistance to, or feeling against, being sidetracked, as she sees it, from her main goals in life.)

[...] In dreams you set your goals, as after death you set the goals for another incarnation.

As your daily endeavors have meaning and purpose, so do your dream adventures, and in these also you attain various goals of your own. [...]

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

In our final discussions we will, in a practical manner, discuss the ways in which conscious goals can be achieved with the help of the sleeping personality. [...]

The advice I recently gave must particularly be followed — so that he concentrates upon the joys that he possesses, keeps his goals in mind, and trusts the infinite intelligence within him to bring about the desired results. [...]

[...] When you feel that way, close your eyes, if only for a moment, reassure yourself that you can trust your vision — mental and physical — and that indeed your goals will be brought into clear focus.

[...] Surely that goal makes them worth it. [...]

(I’m quite aware that many of my own questions in this vein spring from insights gained through Jane’s condition — just as Seth referred to such goals on Jane’s part. [...]

[...] Nor did you have any certainty that any self-imposed period of training and learning would succeed in leading you to your goals. In practical terms your goals were nebulous enough, in that there would be no degrees granted you, to say you had achieved them. [...]

[...] Your biology, your abilities, your mind and your emotions, are not conflicting elements, one battling the others so that you must fight to attain your goals. [...]