“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The body wants to move, to act, to perform, and Ruburt needs some physical sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. [...]

The enjoyment, again, automatically means that for that time he is not worrying—and beside that, the physical activity gives his muscles more to do, and gives him a sense of physical accomplishment. [...]

[...] You were so used to thinking of yourself as guilty, and here you had a new sense to deal with. [...]

Now, there is one very cozy answer that is quite handy at times and it neatly relieves you of all sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Once the experience of the illness had been gained, it seemed to me, it made better sense for the inner self to terminate the particular experience and move on to others. [...]

[...] This leads to a sense of desperation, and undermines your confidence.

[...] When he felt joyful yesterday, the sense of release was translated, as it should be, into physical expression – he sang, for example. [...]

[...] A sense of play must accompany this however. [...]

[...] You should experience even at this point an internal sense of motion. [...]

[...] In this sense perhaps it can be said the object had a meaning assigned to it concerning the future. [...]

A study of any up-to-date scientific thesis on the nature of sensual perception in general will show you that sense data exists independent of the perceiver, yet not necessarily in physical terms.

Such information, incidentally, is basic if the last points are to make any sense to you at all. [...]

Ruburt is of course much more familiar with sense impressions than he is with internal data, or with impressions that do not come to him through the physical senses. [...]

[...] Nevertheless there is a small sense of alienation when the associations do not follow through, but are diverted to the desired end.

[...] It is true that in one sense you have never left this self. It is also true that in another sense you have indeed. [...]

[...] The object was not in a book, but had been part of a book or pad of paper in that sense.

[...] Ruburt, with high youthful ideals, a strong sense of purpose, then came into the picture. [...]

[...] Nebene was upset because of this own sense of purpose. [...]

[...] He needs his sense of purpose. [...]

In a large sense different basic feeling-tones can dominate various incarnations. [...]

The feeling-tone can now be encouraged, the optimism and sense of joy and accomplishment, by indulging in those activities in which he is accomplished and takes joy. [...]

The feeling-tone that is presently for your purposes the best brings you a feeling and sense of ease and abundance in any area of your present endeavors. [...]

You do not dissect a pet cat or dog, so when man began to dissect the universe in those terms he had already lost his sense of love for it. [...]

(Pause at 10:55.) When a man or a woman feels no connection between personal reality and experience and the surrounding world, then he [or she] loses even an animal’s sense of pure competence and belonging. [...]

[...] You have lost a sense of responsibility for your conscious thought because you have been taught that it is not what forms your life. [...]

[...] which immediately wanted approval for my books—not that I shouldn’t want approval per se but that I began to demand that my art provide all my needs; to financially support me, to give me honor among my fellows, a sense of belonging, etc. [...]

[...] The organs possess the combined consciousnesses of each of the cells within them, and in their way the organs sense their own identity.

[...] Otherwise they would make no sense to you at all.

It is also automatically transformed according to your beliefs, so that it makes sense to you at least to some degree. [...]

He [Ruburt] was afraid that if he went too far he would discover that he had catapulted himself into a realm where both answers and questions were meaningless, and in which no sense was to be found. [...]

Outside of that context, none of those fears make any sense at all (equally important, of course). [...]

[...] (Pause.) In a way, some disease states help to insure the survival of the species — not by weeding out the sickly but by introducing into large numbers of individuals the conditions needed to stabilize other strains within the species that need to be checked, or to “naturally inoculate” the species against a sensed greater danger.

[...] The dreams were like glossolalia — you know, speaking in unintelligible speech sounds — yet they made sense, and man began to speak….”

“Animals, like people, sense when they are a burden, and the dog sensed that he was a burden, and also something of a nuisance. [...]

[...] He still sensed nature’s grandeur—(louder:) but that grandeur was no longer his own, and he felt less and less a part of it. [...]

[...] The loss of a real, sensed, appreciated identification with nature has been largely responsible, however, for man’s attitude that self-disapproval is somehow a virtue.

Now a small note: Your poor, misguided, unjolly bachelor friend downstairs did you a service many times, in complementing your wife when you were unable to do so, in giving her a sense or a glimmer of female pride or appreciation when you were unable to communicate, and you knew this.

[...] Both of you enjoy a sense of moral superiority in the presence of your brothers’ families, that they eat so heartily while you refrain. [...]

[...] Obviously these are not apparent to the physical senses, yet they are strong energy centers that to some degree do stimulate the physical senses toward activity. [...]

[...] It goes its own way, concentrated in day-to-day reality, while the inner portions of the self amass great information, perhaps, try out new organizations, and utilize the inner senses. [...]

Your society teaches a basic distrust of the self, but even then from their organizations people look for a sense of approval. [...]