“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The body could not dismiss these until the newly activated muscles began to come into their own, where they could be counted upon to maintain balance in a normal manner.

Certain less-than-perfect muscular habits had been set up, therefore, to maintain balance. [...]

[...] Obviously you have not entirely failed by any means, and you have always maintained an underground basis of loyalty and love; but you are each deeply disappointed with that relationship compared to what you know it can be.

Our sessions, both of your creative works, the good you have done and are doing, the health that you have maintained—no serious organic defects—all of this is testament to what you have done.

Seth maintains that inner information often comes into our minds, though it is sifted through our individual psyches and tinted by our own lives so that frequently we never recognize its source. [...]

Seth maintains that our inner knowledge usually merges so smoothly with our present concerns that we seldom recognize its source, yet it provides the individual and the species with a reliable, constant stream of information through a psychological lifeline to which we are each connected.

[...] For one thing, your concepts of time, realistically or practically speaking, as utilized, would become more difficult to maintain in normal life. [...]

[...] But you cannot become completely aware of your dreams in their entirety, and maintain your normal physical stance.

In a fully ego-oriented state of consciousness this is not so, for the ego constantly tries to maintain a rigid electromagnetic balance. This is obviously impossible, but in the attempt egotistical identity is helped in its efforts to maintain a more or less closed system of perceptions.

[...] The maintenance of overall equilibrium has been excellently maintained, with nevertheless optimum results as far as the development of your psychic abilities. [...] Yet there is always the necessity of maintaining an overall balance of spontaneous inner freedom with disciplined attention. [...]

We are attempting in these sessions to develop both of your abilities in many areas, while we still maintain a most necessary balance of development so that one part of you does not get top-heavy, and topple over. [...]

[...] Now these prophecies were given in terms of the current culture at that time, and therefore, while the stage has been set, the distortions are deplorable, for this Christ will not come at the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining.

[...] A certain historical continuity will be maintained. [...]

[...] (Jane paused, a hand to her eyes.) He created them in so far as he found himself forced to admit certain facts: In that world at that time, earthly power was needed to hold Christian ideas apart from numberless other theories and religions, to maintain them in the middle of warring factions. [...]

[...] The heat makes the muscles far more malleable, releases them, while all the time a general stability must be maintained. [...]

[...] And at home and in your dreams and in healing and in maintaining the effectiveness and integrity of your own physical image. [...]

[...] I have seen to it in fact that all portions of Ruburt’s personality are benefited, and their integrity maintained and honored.

[...] This is not always the case, by any means, but when such a person does recover fully, and maintains good health, it is because beliefs, attitudes, and feelings have changed for the better, and because the person “has a heart” again, comma, in other words, because the patient himself has regained the will to live.

In that kind of setting, however, balances would right themselves because the basic understanding between living creatures would be maintained. [...]

A clear, uncluttered, bright, and powerful consciousness needs frequent rest periods if its efficiency is to be maintained, and if it is to correctly interpret reality. [...]

[...] As long as the illness continues the problem remains unsolved, and a vicious circle is maintained because of this unwholesome balance. [...]

The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You will learn to maintain stability and identity in the midst of a bewildering number of strange and previously unknown situations. [...]

Ruburt’s own experience, in maintaining his own identity independently, while also allowing me to speak through him, will be to his benefit. [...]

[...] And there is always the difficulty in maintaining the integrity of the material and keeping it free of distortion... [...]

[...] To help others also helps maintain your own control, and will inspire others...

If they are severed you would not have a sane unit, but a disjointed pattern not capable of maintaining balance.

The connections between dream images and the physical body are always maintained. [...]

[...] You have tried to maintain stability while you work, and have schooled yourselves so that it is not disrupted. [...]

It is this inner director who maintains all of these functions, and who is responsible for the physical health. [...]

[...] The inner ego is concerned with maintaining the foundations and balance, which is very important, of the whole self, and it is open to messages from the overall entity. [...]

[...] For consciousness and existence do not exist because of delicate balances, so much as they are made possible by lacks of balances, so richly creative there would be no reality as it is understood to be, if balance were ever maintained.

It is this dilemma, precisely between identity’s constant attempts to maintain stability, and action’s inherent drive for change, that results in the imbalance, the exquisite creative by-product that is consciousness of self. [...]