“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] At the same time she received from Seth’s entity the words “Our existence is Joy.”

[...] This was difficult for her to explain, she said; as though “they” were trying as best they could to explain what they really meant, and all she ended up with was joy. [...]

[...] Existence as you know it is vulnerable, but if you are vulnerable to sorrow and doubt you are also vulnerable to exaltation and joy, so do not attempt to close off from your feelings or be ashamed of them or deny them. [...]

[...] And this involves the creation of further value fulfillment, of consciousness that is not a burden, as sometimes your consciousness seems to be to you, but joy upon which other universes can also rest. [...]

[...] Passivity is based upon the joyful recognition of natural aggression. [...]

(Seth continues to describe the ways in which various kinds of consciousness react to painful stimuli, ending up with a statement that at deepest cellular levels, all sensations and stimuli are instantly, automatically and joyfully accepted, regardless of their nature. [...]

[...] The people saw me, recognized me at once and welcomed me with great joy.

[...] This caused the feelings of rediscovery and joy. [...]

(11:25.) When you try to be spiritual by cutting off your creaturehood you become less than joyful, fulfilled, satisfied natural creatures, and fall far short of understanding true spirituality. [...]

[...] You think of flowers in terms of gentleness, beauty and “goodness,” and yet every time a new bud opens there is a great thrust of joyful aggression that is hardly passive, and a daring and courage that reaches actively outward. [...]

Your body actually lives on large quantities of joyful expectation.

[...] The experience of love also deepens the joy of the moment, even while it seems to emphasize the briefness of mortality. [...]

[...] Ideas are transmitted from generation to generation—and those ideas are the carriers of all of your reality, its joys and its agonies. [...]

There are as many kinds of suffering as there are kinds of joy, and there is no one simple answer that can be given. [...]

The released motions are not only spontaneous, but are experienced joyfully—another very important point. [...]

[...] They are ready to deal with the joy and responsibility that others may not as yet understand, so it is easy enough to make errors. [...]

[...] Let me reinforce my faith in your innate ability to find joyful acquiescence, and to rise above any problems that you have. [...] I know that you can grow tired, however, and that sometimes a gift of energy can be quite a boost; so, again, with this letter I send my joyful recognition of your existence — and energy that you can use to reinforce your own vitality and strength.

[...] It may be natural enough for us in the West not to enjoy the idea of surrendering our individual natures upon physical death, even if intellectually we can understand, for instance, the Buddhist teaching that “perfect” joy can be found in the eventual, blissful surrender of the self to a supreme spirit — although I note with some humor that personally I’ve yet to determine how the self who surrenders knows it’s done so if it’s been so thoroughly absorbed.

Some of you have written in joy, some in sorrow. [...]

(“All creativity is basically joyful. [...] Ideas change the chromosomes, but the sessions and Ruburt’s books, and so forth, must first and foremost be joyful expressions of creativity, spontaneous expressions that fall into their own order…. [...]

(I also think that Seth himself could have some pretty funny things to say here to Jane and me — some day I’ll ask him — words with which he’d humorously caution us not to take the whole affair too seriously, to leave room in our daily lives for the simple, uninhibited joy of creative expression and living even while we study his unending outpouring of material. [...]

(Those two excerpts from Seth contain inspired thinking — especially portions about the power of value fulfillment, and the joy and spontaneity involved in creativity. [...]

[...] Even in births that are thought of (underlined) as not “normal,” there is on the infant’s part a sense of discovery and joy.

[...] The body’s joy and flexibility physically expresses the great energy of the soul, and hampering the body then hampers the soul’s expression.

[...] He needs that background of past joy and success, of sunny hours in the past, to help revive him. [...]

[...] Therefore the possibilities, potentials, seeming miracles, and joyful spontaneity of Framework 2 will be in my mind, so that the doors to creative living are open.

[...] To express the joyful creature nature that is your own. [...]

[...] Just think of it as a joyful game. [...]

(Long pause at 3:26.) The will to live is also inbred into each element of nature, and if you trust your own spontaneity, then that will to be is joyfully released and expressed through all of your activities. [...]

[...] That is, pure joy, even of brief duration, can literally change the direction of a life.

The advice I recently gave must particularly be followed — so that he concentrates upon the joys that he possesses, keeps his goals in mind, and trusts the infinite intelligence within him to bring about the desired results. [...]