“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The exterior core of dreams is also blemished to that degree, but the inner core of dreams provides a constant new influx of material, feedback, and insight from the psyche, so that the personality is not at the mercy of its exterior experience only — not confined to environmental feedback only, but ever provided with fresh intuitive data and direction.

“In summation: the individual is hardly at the mercy of past events, for he changes them constantly. He is hardly at the mercy of future events, for he changes these not only before but after their happening.

[...] You are at the mercy of your emotions only when you fear them. [...]

The message is plain: We are not at the mercy of the subconscious, or helpless before forces that we cannot understand. [...]

[...] By the time you are adults, it certainly seems that you are a subjective being in an objective universe, at the mercy of others, and with only the most superficial control over the events of your lives.³

Now out of mercy for your fingers you may take a break. [...]

It is almost impossible to begin with concepts of one isolated universe, one self at the mercy of its past, one time sequence, and end up with any acceptable theory of a multidimensional soul or godhead that is anything else but a glorified personified concept of what you think man is.⁶

[...] In his exercise, we gently remind ourselves that we aren’t at the mercy of our past beliefs unless we think we are. [...]

I am quite aware that I am repeating myself again and again when I make that statement, but you need to be reminded that you are not at the mercy of unconscious events. [...]

[...] In that regard, you are not at the mercy of your dreams in any meaning of the word.

[...] You triumphed when you refused to be at the mercy of your doubts. [...]

It is imperative, however, that you make an effort not to think in terms of “the symptoms” any longer, but instead to think of ways that Ruburt can condition his body, realizing that he need not be at the mercy of old fears.

[...] (Pause.) Some mercy came to the forefront. [...]

[...] He has some financial sustenance, then, some freedom, as he understands it, and he is the hero, the good guy who is, however, seemingly at the mercy of his enemies.

[...] If illness were thrust upon action, or upon the personality from the outside, then the personality would be at the mercy of outside agencies.

[...] If you do not know your own thoughts, and if you cannot change them when you want to, you are not at the mercy of your thoughts. [...]

[...] They killed them mercifully, and then they ate them so that the wisdom could become a part of the brave and so that, in one way, immortality could be achieved, in that the elders would then feel that they were a part of the tribe and part of the flesh and blood of the tribe. [...]

[...] No longer do I feel as I did before, that man is the slave of time, illness, decay, and at the mercy of built-in destructive tendencies over which he has no control. [...]

[...] The sense of power felt during such episodes is the result of repressed energy suddenly released, but the individual is always at the mercy of that energy then — submerged within it, and passively carried with it.

[...] I see this as a contradiction of the notion that the individual is entirely at the mercy of his or her history and of nature. [...]