“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Lose any bitterness that you may have toward others, for this bitterness is holding you back. [...]

[...] But in working toward a goal that is very distant, a goal that will be extremely difficult for you to achieve, you feel subconsciously that you will be excused from failure; if you fail you can then say that it was because so many obstacles were in your way.

[...] In the general field, working with animals, however, you have admirable qualities that can be utilized if you use them toward a practical goal. [...]

There is in the world of probabilities a good chance that you will very seriously consider marriage toward the end of a two-year period. [...]

[...] The ligaments are trying to move now toward unrestricted motion.

[...] The body’s activity, and there is much of it, is directed toward normal flexibility. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s fairly guarded attitude toward the working men to some extent impeded the relaxation necessary, so that the condition overall improved in the schedule I gave, without the ensuing eye improvement I mentioned. [...]

[...] Is the law a reflection of something else — a reflection of man’s inherent search toward the ideal, and its actualization? [...]

[...] They point toward definite avenues of expression, avenues that will provide the individual with a sense of actualization, natural power, and that will automatically provide feedback, so that the person knows he is impressing his environment for the better.

[...] Many — not all, now — criminals possess the same characteristics you ascribe to heroes, except that the heroes have a means toward the expression of idealism, and specific avenues for that expression. [...]

[...] She’s begun to slow up toward session’s end, though. [...]

[...] Evil does not exist in those terms, and that is why so many seemingly idealistic people can be partners in quite reprehensible actions, while telling themselves that such acts are justified, since they are methods toward a good end.

[...] Value fulfillment is a psychological and physical propensity that exists in each unit of consciousness, propelling it toward its own greatest fulfillment in such a way that its individual fulfillment also adds to the best possible development on the part of each other such unit of consciousness. [...]

[...] So I would like to reinforce the fact that life is indeed a cooperative venture, and that all the steps taken toward the ideal must of themselves be life-promoting.

[...] He yearns toward the cool hours, which then become significant.

[...] (Pause.) The curiosity that had been directed toward divinity became directed toward nature. [...]

To some important degree, cells possess curiosity, an impetus toward action, a sense of their own balance, and a sense of being individual while being, for example, a part of a tissue or an organ. [...]

[...] You are born, then, with a leaning toward the exploration of form and shape in particular.

[...] Some of da Vinci’s sketches already show that tendency, and he is fascinating because with his undeniable artistic tendencies he also began to show those tendencies that would lead toward the birth of modern science.

[...] Now that my emotions have calmed down somewhat after proofreading The Way Toward Health, I can deal with that question at least a little bit.

[...] As always, Seth had done his part, and more, as the record in The Way Toward Health shows. [...]

As Seth said in the session for July 31, 1984, in The Way Toward Health, “The sessions, like life itself, have been and are a gift, rising from the immense, never-ending creativity of existence.”

[...] He should follow any inclinations toward certain foods at this time. He has also done well in trusting his inclinations toward work, exercise, and relaxation, for the mind-body relationship will work as a unit. [...]

In the natural biological flow of a person’s life, there are periods of varying intensities, in which love and its expression fluctuates, and tends toward different courses. [...] Tendencies toward lesbianism or homosexuality in children are quite natural. They are so feared, however, that often just-as-natural leanings toward heterosexuality are blocked. [...]

Individual inclinations toward creativity often emerge in a strong fashion in adolescence. [...]

(Both of us were very glad to have Seth deliver this material on sex, as we’ve received many letters from men and women who were confused about their sexual identities, and often overwhelmed by feelings of guilt because of an orientation toward lesbianism or homosexuality.)

These may be “highflying” goals, however they are positive in nature, aimed toward accomplishment and achievement, and they collect the energies of the people together in a way that stresses cooperation and understanding.

I do not want to romanticize nonhuman life either, or to overestimate its resources, but nature also has its own ways — and in those ways it constantly works toward survival of life in general. [...]

These food ideas are important, since they are passed on from parents to children, and parents often use food as a way of rewarding a child’s good behavior, thus starting the youngster out toward conditions of overweight.

[...] And your feelings in the dream toward him were your feelings toward those old beliefs.

(I also stressed that our changing attitudes would be sure to change our attitudes toward others—that instead of trying to act “normally” toward strangers when they came here, especially when they were unannounced, we should simply be ourselves, secure in the abilities of our own natures; if any of these actions could be taken as “flamboyant” in a negative way, then so be it. [...]

[...] I want those sessions read again that I gave about his attitudes toward “work.” [...]

[...] He has an almost steady impulse toward psychic activity, toward creativity. [...]

The clothing sent by his mother has been somewhat dangerous to him because his feelings, given above, automatically extracted from them the negative feelings of his mother toward him, while blocking out the constructive and loving ones.

[...] He began slowly to open up the channels he had closed and he took first steps toward regaining health. [...]

Your own attitude toward Frederick Fell, and your remarks to Ruburt, deeply frightened him, for they reinforced the nagging feeling that Fell would not do well by him as his father had not done well by his mother. [...]

[...] He felt urgently dependent upon the checks as his mother had been toward welfare checks and the father’s payments.

[...] You chose parental circumstances therefore that would presuppose you toward those directions that you had already decided upon.

[...] Ruburt has strong seemingly contrasting personality characteristics, but seen in the light of the personality’s whole purpose, they are not contrasting but complementary, each one woven with the other toward the main goals. [...]

[...] Therefore you may sense in Ruburt at times confusing inclinations toward high independence in one area, and a self-denying dependence in another. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt chose, as a woman, to have this strong magnetic feeling toward you, and while the same drives pull you both, because he is a woman this time he is, far more than you, sensitive to the lack or ordinary physical endearment. [...]

[...] It comes into being with an inner impetus toward value fulfillment. [...] It is given the impetus toward growth and action, and filled with the desire to impress its world.

[...] Together they work toward a joint kind of value fulfillment, in which both are fulfilled.

[...] The private unquelled thrusts toward creativity were seen as the unbalanced conglomeration of chemicals within a person’s most private being — a twist of perversity. [...]

[...] And if man does not find these (louder), then the so-called basic drives toward food or shelter will not sustain him.

[...] It is very important that parents express a fond affection toward each other, and toward their children. [...]

(I told her the increased motion represented the key to getting her decubiti under control, that any fears she had about increased freedom of motion simply had to be either dismissed or much downgraded-—turned into positive forces and actions toward motion so that her whole body could mend itself. [...]

(Long pause at 9:38.) There is still on both of your parts, however, a move toward Pennsylvania, a yearning of the heart. [...]

[...] They simply fly toward their destination. [...]

Monarch butterflies, in their remarkable migrations, often fly toward land that they have never seen themselves — and yet they reach their destination.

[...] Even then, however, all creatures are sustained by that innate gift, that inner sense of security that not only propels creatures toward life, but safely conducts them past physical life and past death’s doorway.

[...] When you are born that will is directed toward growth and development. [...]

(The day before yesterday Jane told me that she had directed her will wholeheartedly toward physical recovery.)

In infancy and childhood the will singleheartedly directs the body to go full steam ahead, sweeping aside obstacles in the great impetus toward growth and development. [...]

You have been taught for centuries in one way or another that repression, generally speaking, now, was all in all a natural, good, social and moral requirement, that expression was dangerous and must be harnessed and channeled because it was believed so thoroughly that man’s natural capacities led him toward destructive rather than positive behavior. [...]

In your times the individual problems of masses of people are bound up with such issues, and as they work toward their own solutions, then in their own ways they help solve problems at the level of world action. [...]

(9:49.) There are qualitative leaps that exist impossible to bridge with the intellect alone that separate, say, well-meaning, adequate-enough attempts toward artistic achievement, and works that are of themselves naturally artistic exhibitions. [...]

[...] So to some extent or another, Ruburt’s own adherence to past beliefs of a “negative” nature were also used in his life itself, appearing as symptoms that only the more pointed out the necessity for light, and the need for the greater understandings toward which he was searching.

Impulses toward action will be naturally rearoused, and desires toward spontaneous action will find more and more release. [...]

[...] Energy is a positive force, ever-inclining toward creativity and fulfillment.

[...] It continues its own processes toward healing. [...]