“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The idea of moving is (underlined) an excellent one, because it symbolically reorganizes your life in new patterns, and releases “energy” that has been stuck in old arrangements. [...]

[...] The same kind of acceleration, however, applies in your own life, Joseph, and I will also have more to say in that regard. [...]

[...] He also needs something new in his own life, and your work would give him new purpose. [...]

You will be giving life and vitality to the stock human figure that is often used, so that the hands are as alive as the face, and the figures seem caught in motion, begun but never completed.

[...] In trying to deny these early facts of your existence you have shut off strong portions of your own energy and creative strength so that they could not operate for you in your life. [...]

[...] And in those personality characteristics that I use when I speak to you, I show you that the emotional life continues. [...]

[...] You cannot say: “I am going to a party today because I am going to meet an individual there who will be very important to my life five years from now.” [...]

[...] When you think of dreams you usually consider those aspects of it only, commenting perhaps upon the strange activities, the odd juxtapositions and the strange character of dream life itself. [...]

[...] Do not fall for the trashy concepts concerning age—particularly in relationship to art, for there there is far less correlation than there might seem to be, for example, in conventional terms in other areas of life.

Many of the most important art works have been done late in life, as you should know, and blossoming of the psyche cannot be given any age limit. [...]

Thus far we have been dealing with conflicting beliefs, however — and most of those can be tackled in the context of this life alone.

[...] Joe B may suddenly “come to” in a strange bedroom, in a compromising position with a woman it certainly seems to him he has never seen before in his life.

[...] Problems not faced in this life will be faced in another. We cannot blame God, society, or our parents for misfortunes, since before this physical life we chose the circumstances into which we would be born and the challenges that could best bring about our development. [...]

The bulk of the book will deal with Seth’s ideas on various subjects, such as life after death, reincarnation, health, the nature of physical reality, the God concept, dreams, time, identity, and perception. [...]

“Individual life, or rather the life of any present individual, could be legitimately compared to the dream of an entity. [...] As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and obtain insight and satisfaction from them though they involve only a part of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities.

[...] What more could anyone ask of life, I demanded ironically?

[...] (Pause.) It will serve to inspire others, but each person is responsible for his or her own life, and Ruburt does not have a private clientele, nor is he temperamentally suited to use his psychic abilities to track people down or to serve as a therapist. [...]

[...] That recognition in a fashion comes from several fronts—from people in all walks of life, from professors, members of different professions rather—than specifically from other writers (pause), and in time that situation itself will improve. [...]

[...] He needs to turn away from an overconcern with life’s more ‘“weighty problems,” to lose the feeling that it is up to him to solve those problems for himself and you and for the world. [...]

[...] How far do you want to carry this business before we make some changes, like dispensing with the sessions and the psychic life?”

[...] Or it can just be left alone during a life, for whatever reasons.” [...]

[...] He fled from the knowledge of this for the rest of his life, believing it sinful.

[...] The records meant life or death if they were discovered at the wrong time. [...]

[...] These were life and death struggles. [...]

On their return home the code of behavior changed back to one suited to civilian life, and they clamped down upon themselves again as hard as they could. [...]

[...] Yet the soul is above all a fountain of energy, creativity, and action that shows its characteristics in life precisely through the ever-changing emotions.

(“In these passages on hate, and elsewhere in this book, Seth goes more deeply into the nature of our emotional life than he has before. [...]

(As if to celebrate our way of life and work in the house on the hill, we were visited last Saturday by Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, and a publishing colleague of his. [...]

In certain terms (underlined), you are the recognized “result” of all of the decisions you have made up to this point in your life. [...]

6. For material on the death — and life — of Rooney, see these sources: in Personal Reality, sessions 638–39 in chapters 9 and 10, respectively; in Dialogues, Part 3.

[...] The aggressiveness is a thrust for life and action against inertia, but without the acquiescence of the female quality, life would not open.

[...] Nevertheless what you call emotion or feeling is the connective between us, and it is the connective that most clearly represents the life force on any plane and under any circumstances.

[...] As mentioned earlier, each person will also try to fulfill their own unique abilities, and to “fill out” the experience of life as fully as possible.

[...] It is the “soreness,” the sensitivity of life, reasserting itself. [...]

[...] That critical explosion of divine subjectivity into objectivity is always happening, and you are being given life “in each moment” because of the simultaneous nature of that divine subjectivity.

Because Ruburt’s background in this life was particularly bizarre in a way and certainly unpleasant, he became beautifully efficient as far as sensing the approach of psychic storms is concerned and very adept at sensing moods, and also amazingly efficient in learning self-protective devices. [...]

[...] You are learning step by step how to gain access to abilities that you have always enjoyed, always used to some extent, and which have helped mold the exterior circumstances of your life and given your personality much of its meaning. [...]

It is only the inner senses which will give you any evidence at all of the basic nature of life itself. [...]

[...] If you look at the observable physical world in this life, you can, it is true, learn something about the basic rules of the universe, if you take into consideration camouflage distortion. [...]

A concentration upon Aspects, freely, as one part of his life. [...]

[...] Most people can count upon what these are, if they are lucky: steady jobs—though these may be boring and have other disadvantages—a conventional social life, a family and so forth. [...]

You share Framework 1 activity with others, for that world largely surrounds you, but remember, I am speaking in analogies to make certain points, for every person’s life has its Framework-2 orientations. [...]