“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you listen to music that you like, when you are indulging in an enjoyable quiet pursuit, you can sense the different feeling. [...]

The person interested in the psychic pursuit of the wicked, for example, certainly has as much in common basically with the policeman or detective as he or she has with other psychics, regardless of the differences that seem to exist. [...]

[...] He was impatient with you at times, for he remembered you as a companion in male pursuits, and bitterly resented your femininity.

[...] It will go along with enforced starvation, deprivation, or whatever, if the individual in mind is in pursuit of something else that it feels it must have to insure its existence.

[...] These pursuits in the present will automatically change the nature of the present.

Then also, I remember what Seth said about being reckless in the pursuit of the ideal. [...]

[...] You are both peculiarly suited for such pursuit, with a combination of intuitiveness, basic psychic facility, and yet integrated inner identities.

(To Arnold.) Also heed that the ordinary happiness and pursuits within society as you know it are not enough for you, and that you realized that the seemingly contented people were indeed imprisoned. [...]

[...] Everything else was unimportant by contrast, so that other pursuits became taboo. [...]

I resent the designation unjustly given to me, for if I have believed in the phenomenon of sin and sought—apparently too rigidly—to avoid it, my intentions and interests always were not the avoidance of sin so much as the pursuit of eternal truths; the alliance with universal goals, the unity in spirit at least of self, whole self, and universal mind. [...]

[...] So if in the pursuit of such goals I overdid my cautions and overreacted, it certainly was not out of malice, but in a well-meaning attempt to protect the creative self—to keep a hand of caution on its course lest the centuries of man’s belief in sin carried a true weight that I shared but could not comprehend.

In your society particularly, given over so thoroughly to the pursuit of money, such beliefs bring about the most humiliating situations, especially for the male, who has often been told to equate his virility with his earning power. [...]

[...] There was also a soldier’s rather superstitious existence, in an involvement during the Crusade period, where if I may say so, men were driven like fools, and sometimes brainless idiots, in fine pursuit of an idea of God which they could neither conceive or construct.

I say wrong, meaning no moral judgment, but the application of one method to a pursuit that cannot be adequately expressed in such a fashion. [...]

In Darwinian and Freudian terms, certainly later your joint and private pursuits literally made no sense, nor did they conform to any organized religious framework. [...]

[...] In the most real terms, religion should include all of the pursuits of man in his search for the nature of meaning and truth. [...]

[...] Fundamental interpretations of the Bible often lead to such conclusions, so that the pursuit of knowledge itself, which has a built-in biological impetus, becomes a taboo activity.

The body’s discomfort as he wrote would also tone down his inner pursuits enough so that he could intellectually handle them.

[...] People climb mountains, willingly undergoing a good bit of suffering in the pursuit of such goals.

[...] To some extent now, you applied discipline in your work and lives to protect yourself against response to a world that you felt was insane, in direct conflict with artistic pursuits, and in which you felt quite alien —both of you, that is, as a unit.

His pursuit of truth led his mind outward through time. [...]