“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt is motivated quite simply and powerfully by his love for you and his work. [...]

[...] This is put very simply and yet there is nothing, in practical terms, more valid, since expectation has behind it the motivating force of the personality, and utilizes on a subconscious level strong abilities and comprehensions.

[...] Ruburt went to battle with all of his men, and only as he grew older did he begin to wonder at his own motives, or the beliefs that were the structure of his life.

[...] It’s certainly enlarged my own ideas of what human beings are all about, for instance — their motivations, their behavior — ”

(11:01.) It seems almost a sacrilege to say that man is good, when everywhere you meet contradictions, for too often man certainly appears to act as if his motives were instead those of a born killer. [...]

[...] The ill are gathered together and denied all of their normal and natural conditions, including the compensating motivations that alone would sometimes be enough to restore health if given time.

Fear of course was the motive behind this iron discipline. [...]

It is very difficult to try to assign anything like human motivation to All That Is. [...]

[...] Strangely, in all of this the meeting of Rusty and the president of Prentice-Hall hadn’t registered as strongly with us, though we recognized that it could be an event originating in Framework 2. Oh yes—the president is involved with Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, which may have been his motivation for attending Rusty’s talk to begin with.)

[...] My parents’ motives for moving were meaningless to me at the time. [...]

Through the pendulum, you can gain access to your subconscious knowledge, to your motivations. [...]

[...] I don’t think those actions inspired Seth’s advice here, although my unconscious motivations for such a practice may coincide with it. [...]

But there are precognitive dreams that tell me precisely what I want to know when I want to know it — if I’m deeply motivated enough to request them through suggestion. [...]

[...] Some of this will seem very simple, but often you forget the pure simplicity of your motives when you concentrate upon tangles.

(To April.) Now over here  until you have been here longer, I do not have too much to say to you for there is much that you must learn, and you might misinterpret what I might say—only that I am aware of your motives, and that there are reasons behind all behavior and all events, though they seem to you quite tragic. [...]

“The motivating force is still All That Is, but individuality is no illusion. [...]

[...] Sensing of course the bitterness that he felt because she was not a boy—incidentally this is a strong subconscious motive—this caused her to bear him three sons to help allay his bitterness. [...]

[...] The use of the word fragments here, by Seth, led us to think that reincarnational motives might be involved in the marriage; but I did not think to quiz Seth about this when he resumed. [...]

[...] The interesting thing about Seth’s statement is that with counterpart theory in mind one can gain a fresh appreciation of how underlying emotions and motives flow among certain individuals, sometimes surfacing in feelings of dislike, for instance, to whatever degree. [...]

Such connections and questions, whatever their strength and the conscious or unconscious motivations behind them, make a fascinating area for study. [...]