“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You must look into the face of vulnerability to find joy. You cannot find a joy unless you accept vulnerability. Even the gods know vulnerability—and that is why they live. And because I have known vulnerability, I am still alive. I give you then all the peace and joy that you can hold. But you cannot hold peace and joy like a stone in your hand. For it goes through you and out into others.

There should never be a word in any language that means repentance. There should only be a word that means, “I bless,” for when you bless you do not need to repent. And when you accept a blessing, you do not need to repent. For when you realize how to accept a blessing, there is nothing to repent. Love of All That Is requires simply that you become open as air, for when you are open as air then the joy of All That Is flows through you indiscriminately, and there is nothing to repent. You only need repentance when you do not know joy. For within joy and within All That Is there is only glory that is only consciousness and song. There is only blessedness.

When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. And All That Is is consciousness and joy. Do you berate a flower that has one crooked stem? So in yourselves, know spontaneity. And in spontaneity you will find joy.

[...] The cells within your fingers know this reality and this joy. [...] Listen to the knowledge within the cells of your fingers and they will teach your intellect what joy is—and from this your intellect can learn to sing! [...] Then shout yes with joy -the cells of your body shout yes. [...]

[...] It is hard for me to remind you of the seriousness—and yet of the joy of your existence. [...] (Laughter from the class.) But I do beseech each of you to look within yourselves for that joy that is your own—and to accept it. It is not that the joy is not present, but that you refuse to acknowledge it. [...]

And if my voice does not sound joyful when I speak of joy, it is simply a matter of mechanics. [...]

Men and women have joyfully honored and loved the evening and the dawn, and listened to the heart-pulse within them, with a blessing and a joy who have not had one-hundredth of your blessings or one third the reason to look forward to another day, and they have fulfilled themselves and brought joy to others. [...]

I would impress her with the fact that her existence will be more joyful than she can imagine, more productive and fulfilling, when she lets these conditions go. Now the whole answer to her dilemma is in this session, and she must understand that she is capable of doing what I suggest, and that the joys and rewards will be beyond her present (underlined) expectations.

He would be a famous writer, on his own terms, (underlined) or he would not accept life joyfully. [...] He would be a novelist and a poet, as the conditions of his happy existence, of his joyful existence, or he would not operate naturally.

When you are joyful, and I know in spite of the serious faces that you are indeed joyful, then you have some idea of All That Is. [...] When you perform some task without effort and take joy in the task, you will have some slight idea of All That Is. [...]

[...] Life and consciousness are joyful. Allow yourself some joy and find peace.

[...] (Pause.) Begin with a feeling of joy. [...] The feeling of joy changes the objects themselves, in that the perceiver sees them in a far brighter light. [...] In feedback fashion, the environment then seems to reinforce his joy.

The joy stretches out, so to speak, into the future, sheds also its light into the past, and may cover greater areas of expansion than could be shown in physical terms at that moment. [...] (Long pause.) He may see images that are highly symbolic to him of joy or exuberance. [...] He now enters into his mental experiences far more deeply than in the reverie state, and may have a series of dream episodes in which he is able to express his joy and share it with others.

[...] If we use joy as our example, all mental symbols and images of it would finally disappear. [...] The soul would then begin to explore the reality of this joy in terms that can hardly be explained, and in so doing would learn methods of perception, expression, and actualization that would have been utterly incomprehensible to it before.

[...] And follow the acceleration of your own consciousness gladly and joyfully and openly and follow it wherever it wants to go, freely, in gratitude. [...] And know that you will return to the room, that the physical image is still within it, but allow yourself the freedom to travel between dimensions, to accept what comes to you gladly, even our Lady of Florence over there in the corner; to open up joyfully and follow, (to Florence) and you close your eyes. [...]

[...] I want you to feel that energy that belongs to you, that knowledge that is a part of your genes, that fills yourselves with acceleration and joy and exaltation. (Emphasizes every word.) And I want you to sense that identity that is your own and the purposes that are yours, the joy that is a part of your being. [...]

[...] I want you to travel further than you have gone before, to open up yourself with greater freedom and joy to other forms of consciousness that are your own; to other roads that exist for you, to other kinds of knowledge that you either may or may not be able to verbalize. [...]

No one can order you to feel joy. You cannot order yourselves to feel joy. [...] You can release yourselves to the sensation of joy and then follow it. I saw the yawn, and in the yawn there is joy. The yawn is a spontaneous expression of the body and within that there is joy. [...]

[...] Now if there is any discipline that I would tell you to adapt, it would be the discipline of joy which is spontaneous and from which, initially, all creativity comes. Within yourselves you understand the meaning of the word joy, then you will find no contradiction. [...] Joy, faithfully followed, can lead you to the inner vitality that dwells within yourself and, hence, to All That Is. [...]

If you understood and felt the joy within your own being, you would have no need of questions. [...]

I am here to tell you that your joy [is] not dependent upon your youth, for I am hardly young. I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your physical body, for I have none. I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your nervous system or physical form, since I have none. [...]

[...] Existence is joyful, and vitality rings throughout the universe, and speaks out indeed with such a voice as mine. [...]

[...] Change joyfully. [...]

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. [...] It is a sense of joy and makes all creativity possible. [...]

[...] The vitality of the universe is creativity and joy and love and that is spirituality. [...]

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. [...]

[...] It is a sense of joy that makes all creativity probable.

[...] The vitality of the universe is creativity and joy and love, and that is spirituality. [...]

[...] So will his “work” be enriched and fulfilled—but because he is joyfully himself. [...] When they are not fun, creative play, joyful wonder, then they will no longer serve their purpose. [...]

[...] Ruburt must be himself, fulfilling himself, and those joyful, free, personal and intimate freedoms of his life. [...]

When he allows himself spontaneity his true vitality returns, and the feeling of joy, active joy, that he has so often missed. [...]

[...] As the joy of life is reflected in all of your acts, affecting your work, bodies, environment and the people you meet, so your problems are also faithfully reflected in all of these areas.

[...] It is not now so much a matter of relaxing, as going joyfully along with. [...]

Exuberance and joy, however, basically have nothing to do with time or age. They may be expressed as vividly and beautifully at the age of 80 as at the age of 8. For whole segments of the population, however, it seems as if joy and health are fleeting attributes expressed briefly in childhood, and then lost forever.

— are always aware of their own joy regardless of circumstances. [...]

— and abundance, and it may seem as if joy in living was an attribute only of the young.

[...] It is because you have closed yourselves off from peace, and joy springs out of peace. Joy cannot come from unease and dissatisfaction. [...] The kingdom of peace is within each of you now and if you realize this, then indeed you dwell in peace and from peace comes your security and confidence and joy. [...]

Now, whenever you are truly joyful, you are on the right track. [...] God is a joyful being. [...]

[...] You look at nature and you find the joy that is within you that you have also formed outward. [...]

[...] Now he is free to work joyfully on Aspects, without the old “poisoned drive”—that is, he will be working because he wants to, and not because he feels his existence is dependent upon it.

[...] Now he is free to concentrate on Aspects, and with a joyful goal also in physical terms at the end. [...]

[...] You will find moving a natural process, a joyful extension and an important symbol in both of your lives. [...]

[...] I enjoy the great vitality and exuberance of your reality, and our city will have joy and exuberance. Now joy sounds quite acceptable, but (with amusement) our city will also have fun — which in many spiritual circles is not so acceptable!

[...] And if it seems to you, because of your beliefs, that you are limited here, then I joyfully challenge each of you to create a city, an environment, and perhaps a world, in which no such limitations occur. [...]

[...] “To do so, you must give your best with dedication and joyful creativity. [...]

You overeat, to compensate for the other joys that you do not allow yourself. [...] Now the joy that you experience when you are painting will be yours, and not desert you whether you stay in your house or go to someone else’s. You will not have to worry about “carting it along” with you. [...]

[...] You have added to it the fact that you will not indulge yourself in joy, or in joyful pursuits, Unless you can rationalize to yourself by saying: “I am doing this for someone else,” and that is the only reason you let yourself work with the necklaces that you made. [...]

[...] Imagine, then, the joy of hearing that sound in a world that had known none. [...] That alone, done once a day, will help arouse again within you the joy and wonder of that particular sense.

[...] Therefore free your perceptions while you have the opportunity and use your consciousness naturally in the way that it is meant for you to use it, freely and with confidence and joy. [...] Whatever sensations you have, accept them joyfully and with confidence. Learn to use the mobility of your own consciousness joyfully and follow even further into the pyramid and into, indeed, the light of consciousness and understanding, for it reaches as a pathway between those dimensions, and it is indeed a channel between those dimensions, and it is indeed a channel between your world and other worlds that also exist. [...] And if you find worlds that you do not understand, then look upon them with wonder, but send your consciousness as far as it can go with great vigor, with freedom and joy. [...]

[...] Return again thankfully and with joy to the self that you know, to the body that you know, and feel the energy flood through your physical being and open your eyes to the room and to the people that you know. [...]

[...] Again, full of joy, great joy, it seems, I look forward to looking at the other apartments. [...]

[...] The second one left me with strong feelings of joy and discovery, seemingly out of all proportion to the dream itself.

(Someplace in here I dance quite happily, am filled with the joy of discovery, and am quite as happy as I have ever been in my life. [...]

Beyond that platform (which is not your own native one) is another that operates as “high art,” in which activity is for its own sake, for the joy and discovery of the performance or execution, a high play that sets the needs of the world at least momentarily aside, rises up above specifics into those vaster realms from which specifics emerge. [...]

[...] You need the free joy of performance. [...]