“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Most people settle for following authority—particularly in the professional aspects of their lives, the community affiliations, and so forth, while here and there insisting upon a kind of private creativity that does not threaten the larger beliefs of the structure.

But my mind felt crowded out of itself,
By thoughts not its own,
As if someone were settling down in my skull
That I hadn’t invited in.

[...] But already, the opaqueness was ready to settle back, so I knew it was useless. [...]

[...] Then, as of Monday, he can begin to correlate the new physical activity with his writing, gently, by settling upon three hours a day of the basic “time put in”—but with the stress upon creativity, ideas, and free creative play that may or may not include Seven on any given day.

[...] Instead it settled for platitudes that equated cleanliness (pause) with virtue — hence, of course, your deodorant advertisements, and many other aspects of the marketplace (amused).

[...] (Pause.) A tendency then to run from problems, and a fear of settling in one place.

(We wanted a session tonight on Jane’s problem, although we’d settle for something from Seth each time, along with his other book dictation, or whatever. [...]

(During the night Jane has also more or less settled into a routine of laying down for a couple of hours, then sitting in her chair for an equal time, and even sleeping in it, then going back to bed. [...]

The problem, as a mental manipulation, has not been settled. [...]

[...] They settled many matters by hastily scribbled notes (pause), and by other methods that sometimes did not even seem to deal with the matter at hand. [...]

[...] I watched the ship sink on an even keel through the blue-green water to the smooth yellow and tan and brown sandy ocean floor—but instead of settling motionless there the ship began to ‘sail’ or plow its way across the ocean bottom, almost as though it were a car moving along a road. [...]

[...] Do not try consciously to settle upon any given medium, oil, et cetera (pause), or consciously try to set up a lifetime program, in those terms, now.

(9:48.) In those previous “decadent” European centuries, a man’s or a woman’s worth was indisputably settled by the circumstances of birth. [...]

[...] On other occasions when you go to bed, lie down and settle yourself, but as you fall asleep imagine that you are awakening the next morning. [...]

That is because of the concentration upon the problem, the concentration upon the unpleasant sensations, rather than any pleasant ones, and also because you have indeed determined to settle the problem, and opened up so many issues at once. [...]

(As usual in such interesting cases, I could have asked many questions, but settled by seeking to learn whether dreams could be simultaneous; offhand I did not recall ever reading whether such a possibility had been dealt with by investigation. [...]

[...] When Jane opened the double sealed envelopes, she found the pepper had settled in a loose line at the bottom of the inside envelope; thus it formed a fine patterned edge, which also consisted of black and lighter colored grains even though the pepper is called black, in actuality less than half of it seemed to be black, literally.

[...] It does mean that you settle for a reasonable amount of privacy, but that you do not carry the idea to extremes. [...]

You could not settle for less. [...]

[...] And oh, yes, both of us also did a lot of ordinary living, such as moving and getting settled in our new home and entertaining friends now and then. [...]

[...] Along the way you may settle for a given remembered event or two, and assign to them the reasons for your present behavior. [...]