“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Once such a pathway has been constructed, we have what you may call an action pattern or habit. [...]

We had a short break, and Joan continued to complain of her friend’s drinking habits, how they only added to her own nervousness. [...]

Repression has been one of my own habits, particularly after I learned how destructive negative thoughts can be. [...]

[...] The habit of illness can be rejected. [...]

Illness must be treated primarily by changing the basic mental habits. [...]

You will learn to manipulate and control various levels of awareness, and the habit will carry over into other aspects of reality. [...]

[...] Behind all that you have earlier aspects of Ruburt’s life, involving habits of secrecy developed in childhood, the need for protection and so forth, that simply served to help build the framework. [...]

[...] I don’t know if nine o’clock every night, or if it was a habit, so that there was a phrase used, that said something like “nine o’clock is…” I haven’t got the word yet… “time”.

He then got into the habit of checking the spontaneous self at every point, and setting up opposing muscular reactions and tensions. [...]

[...] Though, obviously, I kept writing out of habit.)

Spontaneity will rise up during the hours given to work, and outside those hours, but he must continue those habits upon which his well-being depends. [...]

“Thus far, however, the old habits have returned, and for all of your joint good intents the idea of bringing things to a crisis point is still far less beneficial than it might appear. [...]

[...] His energies quicken however from then until early spring, and I did not want him to get into the habit of channeling them inwardly to any overbalanced degree. [...]

To do so represents an inability to perceive clearly the nature of the basic structure, and such an inability often carries over into habit so that other basic structures are also misinterpreted.

[...] But the habits of secrecy continued, and there is no reason for secrecy but fear.

[...] Yours is simply not one that I have pursued, and one of the purposes of my appearance at these sessions is to acquaint the one you call Ruburt with inner travel, for he must leave the system as you know it, and in doing so set up habits and paths that can be used to advantage.

(Long pause at 10:23, eyes closed.) I make recommendations now and then, and now and then you see fit to follow them … ¹⁰ Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people … In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.”¹¹ Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand; and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

(8:25.) Unfortunately your own illness brought up in you some buried characteristics that then for some time became the habit rather than, as earlier, the exception.

[...] They are not creatures of habit. [...]

[...] She is very enthusiastic about the idea, and regards it as a breakthrough re her habits and thinking. [...]

[...] I have a habit of sticking various objects on the shade for easy reference—small pictures, drawings, pieces of tape, stickers of various kinds, and other objects. [...]