“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Roger, let us call him, is an idealist at heart, but he believes that the individual has little power in the world, and so he did not pursue his personal idealism in the events of his own life. “Everyone is a slave to the system.” [...]

[...] He had offers of other jobs that would have pleased him more, but he is so convinced of his lack of power that he did not dare take advantage of the opportunities. [...]

[...] The satisfaction of performance leads [her] to more expansive creativity, and to her natural sense of personal power. [...]

Youth is full of strength, however, so he very well may find a way to give his own abilities greater expression, and hence to increase his own sense of power. [...]

God was seen as cruel and powerful when man believed that these were desirable characteristics, needed particularly in his battle for physical survival. [...]

[...] The initial power and energy of that idea of yourself keeps your image alive. [...]

[...] In fact, the implications of what is said here should clearly hint at the more powerful aspects of godhood.

[...] Its power and strength then returned to the dream universe. [...]

[...] Through nature’s manifestations, particularly through its power, man senses nature’s source and his own, and knows that the power can carry him to emotional realizations that are required for his own greater spiritual and psychic development.

[...] He felt that nature expressed for him the vast power of his own emotions. [...]

[...] Right now, we’re very much aware of all of the good things the people of our world are providing for us and for millions of others, every minute of every day — yet a certain portion of our joint interest in that “outside” world is also directed toward the situation at Three Mile Island, the nuclear power generating plant located some 130 airline miles south of us. [...] The whole world was a spectator at the worst accident in the history of our country’s nuclear power program.

None of the unfortunate situations discussed in this book have any power over you, however, if you understand that events do not exist by themselves. [...]

[...] You have the power to change your life and the world for the better, but in doing so you must, again, reevaluate what your ideals are, and the methods that are worthy of them. [...]

[...] You will find far greater power, achievement, and virtue than you suppose.

[...] In the power that you sense there are answers if you have the wits to sense within yourself that same power. [...]

Now I bid you all a fond good evening, and yet before I do, I ask you to identify with the power behind this voice and to feel it within your very cells, for it is your own power, your own energy, your own knowledge and the divinity from which you have sprung and which is a part of each of you. [...]

[...] Feel within yourselves that confidence and power and draw upon it as you go about your daily way. [...]

[...] In other “underground” systems of belief, however, black is seen as a symbol of great knowledge, power and strength. When this is carried to an extreme you wind up with devil cults, in which the poorly understood powers of creativity and exuberance rush out in distorted form; the undersides of consciousness are then glorified at the expense of the other, white, “conscious and objective” values.

[...] There was always a great fear that the blacks as a race would escape their bounds — given an inch they would take a yard — simply because the whites so greatly feared the nature of the inner self, and recognized the power that they tried so desperately to strangle within themselves.

Yet in both of these systems the old are denied their unique power, strength and wisdom, and hence the civilization is robbed as well as the individuals within it.

[...] They may personify great agility or strength or power: individual attributes, physical ideals (pause) which are held up to others for their appreciation, and which signify, to whatever extent, abilities inherent in the species itself.

[...] It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to whatever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

[...] Many people want to change the world for the better, but that ideal seems so awe-inspiring that they think they can make no headway unless they perform some great acts of daring or heroism, or envision themselves in some political or religious place of power, or promote an uprising or rebellion. [...]

[...] If you truly use your prerogatives as an individual in your country, then you can exert far more power in normal daily living than you do now. [...]

Now over here we have great energy, and because I am aware of your conversations, strong power that is being withheld out of caution and fear. [...]

Now Ruburt did not know what he was going to speak about this evening and half of his talk in class is automatic, as you know, but it was no coincidence that he became involved in his talk of power and energy for you had a deep distrust of your own energy to sway people as a salesman (to Davey) as you had a distrust of your ability to sway people as a minister (to Joel) and as you also have the same feeling (to Davey), for what happens is this. [...]

[...] Those that stand against you, you feel have a great energy and a great power. [...]

[...] Use my voice, therefore, as a vehicle upon which unending energy can rise and let that power then of vitality and life and strength enter the body and spirit and mind of the woman and fill her with the feeling of vital life and give her the knowledge of herself that she now so desperately requires. [...]

You will be afraid of any powerful emotion, therefore; frightened of the dimensions of your own actuality, and to a large extent be led to run away from an acceptance of the power and energy of your own being. [...] Such beliefs have a strong depressing characteristic that can lead you to shut down powerful feelings by immediately considering them negative.

(11:01.) When you think in other terms, then you fall into distorted views in which power is assigned to negative elements — and seen as threatening, wrong, or even given demonic connotations. [...]

(9:59.) Do not forget the resolutions, either of you, and for Ruburt the point of power. [...]

[...] As he presented them, his concepts dealt with the spontaneous, rambunctious powers with which nature was endowed. Seth insisted that those powers, followed at least in principle, would raise man’s estate and fill it with a brilliance and joy in which the old problems of the species would largely disappear.

[...] At any point that an individual realizes his point of power in the present, he will not need a barrier to test himself against, or to focus him in what he thinks of as the proper direction.

[...] If you are severely ill and believe that the reasons for your symptoms exist in a past life, that you must “put up with it,” then you will not realize that your point of power is in the present, and you will not believe in the possibility of recovery.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

[...] If you understand that the point of power is in the present, then you have an inexhaustible realm of ability and energy at your command.

[...] They are elements of the power of consciousness, filled with energy. They merge into a powerful sea of being when left alone. [...]

It is somewhat humorous that such a vital consciousness could even suppose itself to be the end product of inert elements that were themselves lifeless, but somehow managed to combine in such a way that your species attained fantasy, logic, vast organizational power, technologies, and civilizations. [...]

[...] The energy and power that keeps you alive, that fuels your thoughts — and also the energy that lights your cities — all have their origins in Framework 2. The same energy that leaps into practical use when you turn on your television sets also allows you to tune into the daily experienced events of your lives.

Mental images therefore are extremely powerful, combining inner sound and its effects with a clear mental picture which will seek physical form. Your imagination adds motivating and propelling power to such images, and so you will find that many of your beliefs are entertained by you in an inner visual manner. [...]

[...] Behind this is the psychic pattern of beliefs in which the patient often assigns to the doctor the powers of knowledge and wisdom that his beliefs have taught him he does not have. [...]

There is a power in simplicity. To concentrate upon what is right opens up greater power than you can presently imagine.

[...] It is true that the anima allows itself to be acted upon, but the motive behind this is the desire and the necessity to tune into other forces that are supremely powerful. [...]

[...] In each facet of its consciousness, literally tremendous power and balance must be maintained to hold aloft this particular consciousness-experience from all others.

[...] Yet from this unconscious bed of possibilities you derive your strength, your creativity, and the fragile yet powerful kind of individual consciousness that is your own.

The power that fuels your thoughts has the same source. [...]

[...] The power to reason comes from Framework 2. In the terms of this discussion, you are able to reason as a result of “magical” events that make reason itself possible. [...]

[...] Scientific analysis of the brain will tell you nothing about the power that moves your thoughts, or hint at the source of the brain’s abilities. [...]

Once begun it contains its own motive power then, repelling those elements that do not fit in with its sense of unity, and attracting those that do. [...]

You then let the motive power within take over but you do not try to bully it. [...]

[...] It is the power that has been given to you as an identity, its services available to you—that is, available to your present personality, for its use.

These, again, have no power over you if you counter them with positive suggestions. [...]

[...] Man does not understand the magnificent quality of his own inventiveness and creative power, however. [...]

The attributes of the gods are those inherent within man himself, magnified, brought into powerful activity. [...]

(9:10.) Behind the actors in the dramas, there are more powerful entities who are quite beyond role-playing. [...]

This person had superior energy and power and great organizing abilities, but it was the errors that he made unwittingly that perpetuated some dangerous distortions. [...]