“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

That kind of enjoyment provides the child with a feeling for its own center. The child becomes self-directed as it learns to follow those pursuits that particularly increase its own individual sense of enjoyment and satisfaction. It might be important that the child learn to put off enjoyment for a period of time, to extend the period between desire and gratification (long pause). Such a period might include a training period, for example, where piano lessons might have to be taken before a concerto can be played.

Even then, however, the enjoyment of the act—in that case playing the piano—is paramount. The sense of enjoyment however does increase and extend individual abilities, and those impulses leading toward enjoyment are meant to serve each individual with a private inbuilt avenue of expression that will help center the person within himself, and within the world—and again, in such a way that both the self and the society are benefited.

First of all, children seek enjoyment. They recognize that enjoyment and self-satisfaction are important gateways to the development of their abilities. You drew because drawing gave you pleasure. Ruburt wrote for the same reason. You did not draw or paint because you felt a responsibility to do so.

[...] That is, in whatever way you can, see yourselves having a productive, enjoyable, creative journey. Ruburt should not wonder, for example, how he is going to manage in the morning, but overall see himself as enjoying himself, and the rest will follow.

Within Ruburt’s present physical situation there is a degree of freedom for the trip and for enjoyment—an opportunity for manipulation, and understanding this will add to that freedom. [...]

[...] I should not need to tell you this: see yourselves enjoying yourselves, having a good time, even within the horrendous conditions as they exist. [...]

[...] Ruburt for example will enjoy and make use of whatever land he has, be it only the dirt in a window-sill plot. [...] You have not been able to take advantage of the yard or the ground available as positive things of joy and refreshment, and have therefore been denied an extra advantage from this place, and the conditions that Ruburt has enjoyed.

[...] Early in this life you also enjoyed it. [...]

He thinks of this place in terms of a dwelling rather than as land, but because his attitude is not charged and because he does love land, he is able to enjoy what land there is. [...]

[...] They bring you enjoyment, fulfillment, understanding, excitement, discovery. [...] Ruburt writes poetry by himself, but left alone, enjoys reading it later to others. [...]

Now: generally speaking, Ruburt enjoys our sessions, and considers them with a natural zest. [...]

[...] Such feelings can then for a while override his natural inclinations and his natural enjoyment and his natural excitement with which he otherwise views our sessions. [...]

[...] He enjoys seeing people then. To enjoy seeing people is a different thing than expecting yourself to be a public personality, however. [...]

He had always enjoyed being somewhat disreputable—had seen himself and you prowling around the edges of society (as Jane had said earlier today)—not simply observers of it but to a large extent apart from its foibles, and certainly not mired in all of its conventional misunderstandings. He enjoyed dealing with it by sending the written word out into the public arena. [...]

This was a session Ruburt enjoyed—also one he had out of a sense of responsibility—but at least with some understanding of the issues involved. [...]

[...] Naturally, sensation and knowledge must of course come through enjoyment and use of the physical body, and through the data received from the physical environment, with which the body must necessarily react.

The outside-attuned consciousness, however, is almost dependent upon exterior stimuli for its sense of life and enjoyment. [...]

[...] From childhood in your society, you were as children told in one way or another that it was healthy to enjoy sports and outside activity, to join in games, to be outgoing with playmates, and all of that is of course quite true. [...]

(9:16.) He likes the farmer image, but he is afraid that being a farmer would cut him off from the commerce with the marketplace that he now enjoys, and the hearty comradeship. [...] He enjoys needling them, while at the same time traveling in their circle.

[...] He enjoys the easy commerce of the marketplace, the unpredictability of being a contractor.

(9:22.) He lives above his means for certain reasons—because he enjoys a certain kind of self-indulgence, and the immediate satisfaction of desires, but also a kind of backhand slap against the socially prominent or wealthier associates—that he can live as well as they.

[...] If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.

[...] We have enjoyed the presence of your brother very much, and we return him to you the better, we hope, for the experience.

[...] I really have enjoyed hearing you, Seth, I think you are a real cool head.”)

I enjoy the lively arts.

[...] Though I certainly appreciate your interpretation, Joseph, as far as my comment on the lively arts is concerned, nevertheless though I enjoyed Jane’s little performance that is not what I was referring to. [...]

[...] Also, I enjoy the questions that you do manage to get in. [...]

[...] The more you enjoy life, and your daily moments, the less difficulty you will be in in any area, for your thoughts become naturally pleasant, and naturally attract good to you from Framework 2.

[...] That kind of stimulus, encouraged, and not forgotten or let go, will set up a new set of mental habits, and literally with no effort, as suddenly he finds enjoyment doing the dishes.

[...] When you are enjoying yourself you are not worrying.

[...] You would enjoy chores done then, for your body and mind would both be refreshed by the different activities.

[...] You went with your feelings about Maria (Clodes), but this caused you difficulty instead of enjoyment because of the bank. [...]

[...] Your guests will be enjoyed because you will see them when you naturally feel so inclined.

[...] That is why, now and then, I enjoy sessions on a less formal basis, without your notes. [...]

[...] She said Seth enjoyed the little session. [...]

Now if I were coming here for fun, I would indeed enjoy smiles and light and conversation. [...]

[...] I enjoyed it. [...]

[...] Only those very sure of their reality can afford to take pleasure in small things and to enjoy them. [...]

[...] Ruburt enjoyed your sparkling brew so, and so now I also to some slight extent can enjoy it. [...]

One small point here for my friend Ruburt, and that is that I did, indeed, enjoy the Saturday evening session. [...]

[...] It would be advisable if Ruburt enjoyed either light reading this evening, or perhaps your television. [...]

[...] The two of you should, when financially feasible, go out for an evening of enjoyment once a week. [...]

[...] Some can be enjoyable adjuncts, and serve as relaxation. [...]

[...] He depends upon creativity, for example, as you do, to provide a more or less steady source of enjoyment, excitement, personal accomplishment—not to mention livelihood —and as per last evening’s session, creativity operates in ways that may appear uncertain. [...]

(Pause at 9:42.) I want you to see that in many of your situations there are creative possibilities that can be flexibly considered, for these will also be reflected in life’s daily enjoyments, in creative satisfaction that literally cannot be measured in terms, say, of how much money is expended, and with the proper attitude the money simply will not matter, it will be so easily replenished. [...]

[...] Some were socially oriented, enjoying a kind of comradeship that would find, for example, television’s impersonal communications a mockery of the give-and-take that they enjoyed in personal contacts.

You can, however, think of what you will do with the money—how you can use it to increase life’s enjoyment, which will in turn benefit your work, and others.

[...] Again, there must (underlined) be a concentration upon the health that he does have, and the freedoms he does enjoy, for these will lead to greater freedoms. [...]

[...] She said she enjoyed talking about the ideas a great deal. [...]

We expect good results from it, and you are doing very well indeed, and should enjoy an opening in your own work. [...]

[...] You should know that I too enjoy a moment of social discourse or I would not keep you so long. [...]

[...] I enjoy speaking with you and wanted merely a few moments of what you might be pleased to call normal conversation. [...]

[...] The twist is a beautifully innocent and wicked contortion that I would enjoy.

(Pause at 9:35.) Such ideas, then, prevent you from enjoying your own accomplishments, as you should more properly do, and from enjoying their growth through time, from the background that was your own. [...]

He may think of some hypothetical literary writer—a composite image again, comfortable enough, slightly avant-garde, fashionably so, in contact with his peers, quite forgetting again that his—and his mind has always been far less conventional than that, far more probing and again, forgetting that he always enjoyed viewing society from a vantage point slightly outside of it. [...]