“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You can even take it for granted that intellectually you may not know all of the reasons (underlined) for your own actions. [...]

This does not mean that you do not know the reasons. [...]

[...] The framework, learning the form first, was adopted for several reasons, having to do with other existences, to some extent given.

[...] Many spontaneous ideas for paintings and sketches you automatically reject because of several reasons. [...]

[...] This is the most reasonable and attainable goal for the present. [...]

Unless you have good reason.

[...] It sees no reason, for example, why you should be informed of information that it does not consider pertinent to day-by-day daily activity.

[...] I am not telling you to run off and buy one, but you could however act on the impulse as far as is reasonably possible — renting a violin, simply acquainting yourself with violin concerti, etc.

[...] You may be sad because a relative has died, for example, or because you have lost a job, or because you have been rebuffed by a lover, or for any number of other accepted reasons. [...]

[...] There are reasons why I am mentioning this now rather than in earlier books. [...]

Your scientists are, generally now, intellectually oriented, believing in reason above the intuitions, taking it for granted that those qualities are opposites. [...]

Indeed, these are some of the reasons why Ruburt distrusted the spontaneous self: because it was feminine, he believed, and therefore more flawed than the spontaneous self of the male.

[...] The problem is, therefore, compounded to whatever degree—and when I give you both such reasons, then sometimes you use them, the two of you, to add to your private and joint self-disapproval.

The reasons for the table of course have to do with your ideas of the world, and with your perfectionism.

[...] Of course, his body does not realize that the pessimist’s views are the most intelligent, proper, sane and reasonable, and so it falls ill because the mind tells the body it has nothing to look forward to.

Creative change, some playful indulgence, the use of the creative abilities, and some simple reasoning with yourselves, will be of great benefit. [...]

When I’m reacting emotionally and Rob gives me a reasonable reply, it always puts me on the defensive. [...]

[...] Other times we didn’t go along, for reasons of our own. [...]

[...] Seth devoted several long sessions to an analysis of Rob’s condition and explained the reasons for the symptoms. [...]

[...] The dream had to do with the fact that for some reason I was to be executed, by painless injection. [...]

For a very good reason you have forgotten a portion of the dream. [...]

You are ashamed to admit that to some extent you resent the payments that you both make, and this is the main reason why these fears were not recognized sufficiently by the ego, but forced into the subconscious where they made themselves known in this manner.

Ruburt had a reason for not going on tour, for example—one that was certainly acceptable enough in a world of conventional understanding. He was saved, so it seemed, from endless explanations; so with a kind of psychological economy that worked far too well for a time the symptoms served to keep him writing at his desk, to regulate the flow of psychic activity, making sure of its direction, and to provide a suitable social reason to refrain from activities that might distract him—from tours or shows, and also even from any onslaught of psychic activity that might follow any unseeming (underlined) spontaneous behavior. [...]

[...] So the reasoning: “Get better, then you can go out into the world to go on television or whatever,” or “Once you get better, you will be delighted to go on television and tell your story”—those directives simply make the issues more muddy. [...]

[...] Settle upon a reasonable amount and expect it, knowing it is just. [...]

[...] Ruburt thought it was natural for him to become ill because of his background, and to overreact for the same reason. [...]

You thought it was natural and inevitable because of your background that you should not have money, even that you should be a loner for the same reason, and deny yourself natural companionship. [...]

Before too long you may have reason to check upon what I have said, for records will appear that seem to contradict previous ones — as indeed they shall — and because of the reasons just given.

Descriptions of important individuals were changed to insure their safety, and backgrounds were often fictional for the same reason. [...]

The evening hours are best, and it was for this reason that I chose them. [...] Since all things have an electrical and chemical reality, the food that you eat is also important, and it is for this reason that I made certain suggestions concerning your diet.

In answer to your question, Joseph: both you and Ruburt were subconsciously aware of the Instreams’ location, and it was for this reason that you chose the photograph of York Beach, though you did not consciously realize the connection.

[...] For some reason I don’t understand the bullets might explode. [...] They were big bullets—one of the reasons the guns were so big.

[...] For some reason the land was better there. [...]

[...] The reasons and purposes for one’s own existence in any life can be found directly in the life itself.

You are all here for a reason. [...]

The exercises have helped physically because of the determination behind them in particular, as have the heat treatments, largely for the same reasons. [...]

[...] She first noticed this phenomena two sessions ago but for some reason never mentioned it to me. [...]

[...] It is true that your particular talents can give variety and reason to many of Ruburt’s ideas. [...]

[...] Sculpture does not, for reasons that I will go into at a later time. [...]

[...] This explains the reason why a chemical imbalance in a physical body will also show itself as a corresponding distortion of sensual data. [...]

[...] And other issues are working with Ruburt, which is another reason for the briefer session.