“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Behind them you will almost always find an inhibited impulse — or many of them — that motivated you to move in some ideal direction, to seek a love or understanding so idealized in your mind that it seemed impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] Any psychology worthy of the name must take this inner motivation into consideration.

[...] You also inhibited your feelings, cut yourself off from Ruburt, retreated, and were negatively motivated. [...]

[...] If so, you are already prepared to change your current beliefs and mode of action, and simply use the occurrences or habits of the past as a stimulus or motivation. [...]

([Ron:] “To a certain extent, you know, you can always— you can bring my motivations into question, but I have like one overriding feeling and that is—I feel that within my own experience I have seen certain indications just from the things that I might be capable of that I could do this myself if, if when and if, because I have entertained the challenge of developing this ability but I in this situation here, I am confronted with kind of a different type of ramifications. [...]

[...] The motivating power was always projected outside* (underlined).

[...] And to have at least some of our deepest desires and motivations brought so clearly to conscious awareness, through psychic means or any other way, was more than we’d thought possible in previous years. [...]

[...] We think Seth’s comments about our situations can help the reader better understand his or her own beliefs, motives, and desires.

[...] You may instead, however, commit an error so that you are suddenly brought up short as you say, “Why did I do this thing which is so unlike myself?” In that case, the error or the action is the same thing as a symptom for it makes you question your own motives and look into your own spirit. [...]

[...] I hoped that the motivations behind it would rise to join her ordinary consciousness.

The money motive did help Ruburt in other areas, and led him to greater understanding while he always knew it had to be dispensed with. [...]

[...] This decision was strictly her own, of course, and was motivated by a very successful out-of-body experience she’d had last night, following ESP class. [...]

[...] Seth faces such questions squarely, and deals with the motivations of both the fanatic and the idealist. [...]

[...] In that reality [as well as in some others], she did have all of her motive powers. [...]

[...] “It is instead to understand it, its needs and motives, and to communicate the idea that it was sold a bad bill of goods in childhood—scared out of its wits, maligned…. [...]

[...] Here, we congratulated ourselves, lay bared all of those beliefs and motivations that for years had been hidden and operative beneath Jane’s symptoms: Here were the real reasons—now we could eradicate her physical hassles! [...]

[...] As a mystic she can have motivations toward exploring certain avenues of the human condition that most of us don’t have. [...]

[...] A discipline, of whatever nature and motivation, can erect barriers to “outside” influences—and those barriers are often artifacts growing almost automatically out of the very nature of the belief system in question.

In a manner of speaking, the motives familiar to men are applied to the smallest microbe. [...]

“I love the way he ties all this in with subconscious motivation,” I said later.

The first strong twinges came earlier when the young psychologist touched certain triggers, indicating that the sessions were a way of handling you, because amid all of the other motives and conditions, he knew they were also a method of keeping your love.

Normal aggressiveness flows with strong patterns of energy, giving motive power to all of your thoughts whether you consciously regard them as positive or negative, good or bad. [...]

(10:11.) Now all of those motives and feelings were well-known to the participants. [...]

[...] What are my motives? [...]