“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Energy constantly changes. Form is not a characteristic of energy, any more than it is a characteristic of matter. As a rule no form imposed upon energy can long endure. The form cannot long endure. The consciousness behind the form, that imposes the form, does endure; because while energy continually changes and does not retain imposed form, it is in itself conscious, and its consciousness endures.

In this case of course the inhabitants of the different fields remain unaware of each other, and only see, or recognize, the particular pattern that they have imposed upon the atoms and molecules in question.

[...] The idea of discipline as you think of it comes into effect most generally when you try to impose a secondary kind of order over the primary one. [...]

People feel that they must push themselves or their civilizations along certain lines—that they must impose an order from without, since they do not trust the spontaneous order of nature. [...]

Ruburt believed he must impose a secondary kind of order upon his creativity and spontaneity. [...]

[...] I have not imposed it upon him. [...]

[...] He did not know whether he dared yet trust his spontaneity, and imposed upon himself symptoms as limitations.

[...] I would hardly then impose responsibility as opposed to joy upon Ruburt. [...]

[...] As I have said often, there are no limitations, even to the self that you know, except those that you yourselves impose. [...]

It is indeed, and it is important that you experience, that you open yourselves up to experiences that you may perhaps have believed impossible in the past, for there are no barriers, only those you impose. [...]

[...] Everything has its season, and yet there is no discipline imposed from without. [...]

[...] The first man is my primary self, who discovers that he must bear the burdens of the second man imposed upon him through cultural beliefs involving taxes, success, the male breadwinner role, and so forth. [...]

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

[...] But do not impose (underlined)a form upon it. [...]

[...] Again, the vision will imply and even sometimes dictate its own form, but the form should always exist as an attribute of the vision and not be imposed upon it.

[...] (Pause.) Allow the vision to express itself in form; again, do not attempt to impose the form upon the vision. [...]

The anima, therefore, is an important safeguard, preventing the male from over-identifying with whatever cultural male characteristics have been imposed upon him through present background, environment, and education. [...]

Each inner self, adopting a new body, imposes upon it and upon its entire genetic makeup, memory of the past physical forms in which it has been involved. [...]

[...] You impose your ideas upon it and largely affect its health and well-being through your conscious beliefs. [...]

An over-insistence upon sticking to one subject imposes limitations. [...]

[...] These are concepts imposed upon reality, but this does not make them real in themselves.

([Joel:] “As this evolution of the church continues and progresses before the timetable established at 2000 and disintegrates as we know it now, will this be a voluntary disintegration or will it be imposed politically?”)

It will be imposed but from within. [...]

[...] That faith existed even before churchly doctrine was imposed over it. [...]

[...] Often, however, they have less of a solid foundation than others in dealing with a mass-shared reality, and so they attempt to impose their own private symbols upon the world, or to form a completely private world. [...]

[...] He had much to say about how the out-of-place stresses we impose upon ourselves through our fearful projections into the future adversely affect our body consciousnesses, which are focused in the present. [...]

For a time however a conglomeration of beliefs merged, so that he felt that he had to drive himself unremittingly: and this meant, to him, imposing disciplines as given earlier. [...]

[...] Pattern is not imposed upon him but is the ents own outline.

up within your sphere, but not imposed upon it from without.

[...] Nor are they imposed from without. [...] The form does not impose itself upon the vitality. [...]

[...] Nature as you know it is also a result of your decision to handle large amounts of energy without strong imposed restraints. [...]

“Writing, as a linear form, itself imposes limitations here.

The only impediments are those you impose through your negative beliefs. [...]