“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

3. Above; of course; not enough money or a job I see as jeopardizing my artistic self; while with the physical condition I can write.

4. Can’t count on Rob to do much financially, would think it self-betrayal on his part to get a job, and he always complained at Artistic. [...]

[...] He has two children and lives in Nebraska, and oddly enough he is a house painter who also wanted to be an artist. [...]

[...] He wanted to be an artist also. [...]

[...] He has therefore never pushed you really to make a change since that time, and has pushed such ideas away from him, although he feels that the longer you stay at Artistic the more unhappy you will be; and there is also in him, and in you, a fear of making a move in physical terms. [...]

There are times when various circumstances are correct, and when these occur messages from your artist friend (Van Elver) come in very strongly, and often suddenly. [...]

(My drawing was actually a recreation of artwork that had been lost at Artistic Card Co. [...]

[...] Then later Jane thought of the lost artwork at Artistic—“something unclaimed”?

[...] I do not know the people who operate John’s Bargain Store, but neither do I know many other of Artistic’s clients. [...]

[...] Intuitively he has always believed that you should leave Artistic. [...]

He was ready for you to leave Artistic and take your chances as soon as you had a thousand in the bank. [...]

Once more, if you think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist, then you will realize that as your beliefs change so will your experience. [...]

It is as if an artist finished a painting, and instead of going to a new one he does countless variations of the original, without realizing what he is doing. [...]

[...] Saturday morning, then, as I was in Robinson’s lumber for parts for Jane’s chair, I met Curt Kent, who used to work with Cec and myself at Artistic; I haven’t seen Curt for perhaps two years, Cec since last Christmas. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Great artists are those who materialize physically the paintings already created by the whole self in potential form.

[...] What most artists do not realize is that the self is the first creation. [...]

The dream represented a correlation of past, present and future, a knowledge that Ruburt was indeed an artist in a distant life, that he has strong abilities in that direction now; and it represents your inner realization of the type of painting he can ultimately produce in this life if he utilizes the ability. [...]

[...] Both Jane and I of course have been aware of her artistic ability, and I have made various attempts to get her to use it more regularly. [...]

[...] In the terms of which we’re speaking, now, having attained a certain but quite limited artistic career that you felt was more of a prison that no technique could help you escape. [...]

(11:33.) You are trying out highly creative, innovative, imaginative, and truthful concepts—not just theoretically and artistically, but applying them to your lives. [...]

He should indeed reread those sessions that he read today, and you paint because you love to paint, and forget what an artist is supposed to be or not to be. [...]

(I like the part-time arrangement I now have at Artistic very much. [...]

[...] Ideas of virtue, spareness and artistic single attentiveness as opposed to the idea of extravagance, the scattering of energies, or pleasure as a tempting disruptive force; all such beliefs are suddenly shaken up in a new bag, so to speak, so that you can distinguish between them with some new understanding. [...]

[...] No television picture is showing you the silent afternoons spent by an artist who will be called great tomorrow, or stresses the vitality of life that is responsible for the existence of the television sets to begin with. [...]

With the dream book he tried to do something he did not consider artistic, and was unable to do it. He believed in the book’s ideas, but the artistic framework for him was not right. [...]

[...] In addition, my pendulum told me today that my hand symptoms stemmed from my fear of failure as a fine artist—nothing else.

[...] when you were working particularly at Artistic, you could not say he was out gadding around and not using his abilities. [...]