“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In your terms, then, other civilizations considered art as a fine science, and used it in such a way that it painted a very clear-cut picture of the nature of reality — a picture in which human emotion and motivation played a grand role.

[...] Its motivation is to feel at one with a state of grace, at one with its place in the universe. [...]

You are taught to question your motives, your behavior, your feelings, and everything but your beliefs. [...]

[...] (Pause.) These provide the motive power that moves your civilizations. [...]

[...] If information is thought to come to the self only through physical means, then of course heredity and environment must be seen behind human motivation. [...]

[...] That experience, then, led to the sessions and to this book, containing enough energy and motive force not only to change my life but also to affect the experience of others.

[...] They are individually motivated, in a sense loners. [...]

[...] This was the original motivation for it. [...]

[...] An unconscious motive may also be conscious at one point. [...]

(“It should go without saying that impulses are the basis upon which life rides —and that they represent the overall motivating life force.”

You may be convinced that human nature is evil, or that no one is safe from another’s aggression, or that people are motivated mainly by greed. [...]

[...] It is as much a part of the electrical universe as it is a part of the world of psychological motivation. [...]

I hope to show that all species are motivated by what I call value fulfillment, in which each seeks to enhance the quality of life for itself and for all other species at the same time.

[...] It is not enough to squint at yourself—to look at one motivation—to accept partially. [...]

[...] All deep aspirations and unconscious motivations, all unspoken drives, rise up for the approval or disapproval of the conscious mind, and await its direction.

[...] You will be replenished and renewed as your thoughts motivate joyful body sensations and physical events, or you will be depressed as you bring into your awareness unpleasant past body happenings.

I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak—those same rhythms that motivated the ease of your paintings in your dream. [...]

[...] Faith in a creative, fulfilling, desired end, sustained faith, literally draws from Framework 2 all of the necessary ingredients, all of the elements however staggering in number, arranges all the details, and then inserts into Framework 1 the impulses, dreams, chance meetings, motivations, or whatever is necessary so that the desired end then falls into place as a completed pattern.

Some personalities are drawn to enter at conception as a result of seemingly less worthy motives — greed, for example, or an obsessional desire that is partially composed of unresolved problems. [...]

You both suspected all sorts of tricky subconscious motives on Ruburt’s part. [...]