“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The conscious mind sets the goals and the inner self brings them about, using all its facilities and inexhaustible energy.

[...] It means that you set challenges to be overcome, set goals to be reached, set up frameworks of experience through which you could develop, understand and fulfill certain abilities.

Since we are all involved with world events, it is highly important that we also understand how we fit into those global actions, and see how our negative beliefs about ourselves and the species can result in situations far less than ideal, and quite different from our stated goals. [...]

[...] Like many other people, I thought that following my impulses was the least dependable way of achieving any goal — unless I was writing, when impulses of a “creative” kind were most acceptable. [...]

In the meantime, when incarnations on the planet earth are finished the entity moves toward this goal anyway. In any case by the time that this goal is reached on the earthly plane, those who have passed from it will have evolved in ways of which even I can only dream. [...]

“Yet,” she continued, “second thoughts make us question old assumptions: Granted the existence of counterparts to begin with, certainly their common goals, though differently expressed, would bring them together when possible. [...]

[...] Some would set goals for themselves that demanded that their powers of seamanship be tested. [...]

[...] Using animals in the laboratory is imposing human goals and values upon other life forms, even though the modern scientific method is supposed to be value-free. [...]

[...] My wife’s life and work show that we can even create challenges and goals before birth, then in physical life plunge into fulfilling those qualities as we don flesh and clothing and beliefs. [...]

Each most microscopic portion of the body is conscious, strives toward its own goals of development, and is in communication with all other parts of the body.

I want it understood that money was not the primary goal, that his early drive to escape his environment was based on the false idea that worth was dependent upon your status. [...]

[...] Instead, “the writer” was seen in his mind as the dominant part of the self, definitely apart from other portions, and with different goals and purposes.

The dehypnotizing exercises, again, are most beneficial, since both of your energies are then used toward a common goal. [...]

(Long pause.) Large numbers of the population do indeed live unsatisfactory lives, with many individuals seeking goals that are nearly unattainable because of the conglomeration of conflicting beliefs that all vie for their attention. [...]

[...] Consciousness is after all the goal.

[...] Ruburt feared that the point had been reached beyond which you could not afford to go, while still maintaining those ideas, ideals and goals that were your own.

[...] Your own ideas and goals are worthy ones, and yours for a reason. [...]

[...] If you really learned to trust Framework 2, you would set your goals there, and trust that they would be as creatively manifested as your books or paintings. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There were certain deep questions about life, certain pressing problems about man’s condition, with which you felt you had little experience, since your primary goals had been to examine life, to stand apart from it to study it, And therefore you both felt that you had few of the same concerns as those that led other people (quietly intent). [...]

[...] It seems that in recent years one of my main goals in life has been to pare down—or eliminate outright—a number of ideas and obligations and hassles that I’d finally realized weren’t worth the time to retain. [...]

[...] Philip will not achieve certain stated goals unless he takes strong measures, but certain unstated goals on his part will be met.

[...] It seems that we can put the concepts of the frameworks to use in all areas of daily life, reinforce longtime goals, etc.

(It may be that I’m quite intrigued by the understanding that in Framework 2 one doesn’t have to be concerned with the details—that desired goals are being arrived at in ways we may not easily grasp—but that the work is being accomplished. [...]

I surely understand that you want to make the knowledge practical in the physical world, and to help people as much as you can, but that cannot be the only goal — for that goal must always be the high personal exploration of consciousness, the creative and artistic pursuit for which there may be no name. [...]

[...] But part of our success will depend on keeping these simple goals always in mind, before us.

[...] If you want to be a true practicing idealist, then each step that you take along the way must be worthy of your goal.