“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your stomach bothers you at various times for different reasons. The reasons, however, always have a particular base, so to speak. Parents sometimes express love by concern, though children seldom understand this. I have mentioned this before: the parent saying “Brush your teeth,” means “Your teeth are beautiful and healthy. I want you to keep them that way.”

Many parents find it difficult to express love verbally in a positive, open, unabashed manner. The child, however, according to circumstances, may hear only the order “Brush your teeth.”

Intellectually he accepts it, but emotionally he yearns for that direct expression. The child may think “My teeth are fine, why yell at me to brush them?” Ruburt thinks “What is there that allows you to speak your concern more actively than your love?” He is verbally oriented. Words have rhythm—emotional rhythms, to which he is acutely attuned. You are saying “I love you. My art is, for whatever reasons, private. I respect it. It involves a method of expression, and a primary stance of my life, regardless of what it brings or does not bring. I am sorry that somehow I cannot use it in the way that you use your writing, and even in the way that I can use mine. When I think that others take advantage of you in monetary terms—government, publisher, or public—it makes me wonder why. I wish that my painting could bring you abundance in social ways also. I feel guilty sometimes when I paint for that reason. I know that you understand on deep levels. I wish I could express my love verbally, but if not, I will express it is this fashion.”