“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Through your physical image the energy of the universe expresses itself. You, as an individual, as individualized consciousness, are a part of this, and you cannot express yourself fully, nor fulfill your purpose as an identity if you are not in good health. [...]

[...] Such a denial of experience is far more detrimental than a specific problem, for there is an inability on the part of the personality to express itself at all in that area.”

Here and on the following pages, Janes trance expressions and gestures change dramatically to those of Seth. [...]

[...] As a child, couched in the Catholic Church, his poetry was a method of natural expression, a creative art, and also the vehicle through which he examined himself, the world as he knew it, and the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church.

[...] I have not forgotten your questions, but also try to keep these sessions kindly, and to respond to your intuitions as you express them. [...]

I say wrong, meaning no moral judgment, but the application of one method to a pursuit that cannot be adequately expressed in such a fashion. [...]

[...] It is a trite statement, perhaps, but the ruler’s measurements have absolutely nothing to do with the measurements made by the heart, and they can never be used to express the incalculable measurements that are made automatically by the smallest cell.

[...] Genetic structure makes possible physical organisms through which life is to be experienced, and to a large extent that structure must determine the kind of action possible in the world, and the way or ways in which volition can be effectively expressed.

To some extent that emotional reality is also expressed at other levels—as your own is—in periods of dreaming, in which animals, like men, participate in a vast cooperative venture that helps to form the psychological atmosphere in which your lives must first of all exist.

This permits the fullest expression of true identity that is possible within the physical system. Otherwise identity is smothered to a large degree beneath a strictly oriented one-sex identification, with other characteristics masked and denied expression.

[...] You strive to express as best you can the entire potential that is within you.

In the same way, if your core belief stresses your spirituality to such an extent that it cuts off needed sensual expression, then it has become restrictive and will end up strangling, even, that spiritual experience that it was originally meant to express.

[...] You both possessed such strong creative abilities, however, that once expressed they were bound to create attention. [...]

[...] One need not be expressed at the expense of another. [...]

[...] A few of our European allies, however, have expressed concern and sympathy. [...]

[...] The idea still is to love and protect and cherish, and express the body that you have.

[...] Seth, through Jane, had been watching Tam’s expression.) You are used to your intellect. [...]

[...] Seth greeted us, gave a few voice effects which were controlled because of the hour and the proximity of other tenants, and expressed his willingness and capability to continue until six in the morning. [...]

[...] Mortality with its birth and death is the framework in which the soul, for now, is expressed in flesh. [...]

I do not mean to imply that you necessarily deal with opposite kinds of behaviors, for there are endless variances — each unique — as consciousness expresses itself through physical sensation, and attempts to explore all of the possible realms of emotional, spiritual, biological, and mental existence.

[...] As I said before, he must realize that it is safe and natural and good to express his being freely—not just a certain decided-upon portion of it. [...]

(Then we had a discussion about some articles I’ve just read in the latest issue of Free Inquiry, a magazine whose writers express a deep skepticism about anything having to do with the paranormal.

[...] In a particular fashion, that identity cannot be fully expressed within the confines of any one form, any more than yours can. [...]

[...] There wasn’t anything in my thought patterns that he could make words out of to express what he wanted to say. [...]

Now: We will see if we can express some concepts about the self in a new way. [...]

“Consider, for example, a situation in which a personality needs to express dependency, but feels such expression inappropriate. [...] The individual may never recall such a dream, but the experience would be valid and the dependency expressed.

“On one level the personality attempts to solve problems through dream constructions … and often gives freedom to actions that cannot be adequately expressed within the confines of waking life. [...]

[...] Ideas expressed at such occasions will be strenuously fought by her. [...]

[...] Seth’s reference to my parents stemmed from an insight I expressed earlier today—that is obvious once thought of: that often as a youth I deplored my parents’ constant arguing and disagreements, thus judging them, but never gave a thought to how they felt on a daily basis while living such lives. [...]

Remind Ruburt further (pause) that he did his best to help your mother, making efforts toward love and communication (long pause) that he felt you were not able to express toward your mother at times.

[...] As earthquakes cause lava to boil up seemingly from the center of the earth, so do some secondary personalities in their explosive emersion bring with them debris from other levels of the subconscious, often personifying themselves in the guise of those buried and frightening fears that have, until then, found no vehicle for expression.

Now, since we are thinking in terms of archeological layers, we would continue to express ourselves along those lines. [...]