“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Walking barefoot on a bed of fire would most likely cause most of you, my readers, to feel the most acute pain — while in some primitive societies, under certain conditions the same situation could result instead in feelings of ecstasy or joy.

[...] In the meantime, however, live each day as fully and joyfully as possible. [...]

[...] And in the spontaneous playing of the bees from flower to flower there is a discipline beyond any that you know, and the laws that follow their own knowledge—and joy that is beyond command. [...]

[...] He was afraid I would raise my voice and he did not know whether or not the microphones would shatter and so I spoke quietly and decorously but it is difficult to show the vitality of consciousness when I have so few methods available without using the vocal cords in joyful abandon. [...]

[...] How blessed, bodies, leaping alive from the microscopic molecules that combine to walk down the autumn streets; assemble to form the sweet senses’ discrimination that perceives, for a time, the precise joy and unity of even one passing afternoon. [...]

[...] “The Iranians must be jumping for joy,” I said to Jane when I first saw the headlines in the newspaper. [...]

[...] You can find yourself in the middle and there find independent joy and understanding. [...]

The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet, understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist who has long since forgotten the experience of perceiving one violet, though he has at his mental fingertips the names and classifications of all the world’s flowers. [...]

[...] The idea of responsibility, however, began to overweigh the joy of creativity. [...]

[...] But the inner self of the woman knows that in facing such a condition and finding nevertheless some moments of joy, even some compassion for others, that the personality has satisfied many of those feelings of inadequacy from the past existence. [...]

[...] Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.

He should imagine himself, before he sleeps, indulging joyfully in the next day’s activities, and should not concentrate on his symptoms, even if it is to wish they disappear. [...]

[...] I suggest therefore that he make an attempt to express his moods, both joyful and sorrowful, in physical terms through body motion. [...]

[...] The creative person often is not wanted at a job, because their creativity by contrast with others’ behavior shows the vast difference between what I will now call joyful work and the usual variety.

In a strange fashion desire promotes action seemingly without effort, or the effort seems so natural, so spontaneous and so joyful that it is not recognized as effort in the old fashion. [...]

[...] But they’re all great people and a joy to see and depend upon, and obviously they like us.

[...] Hence, you do not make any simple, joyful remarks, like “The book will be out in England or Germany,” and indeed, you take little pleasure from that, but leap ahead to the imagined threats. [...]

[...] Your original “walk for joy” was an “absolute” by contrast making his attempts seem futile. [...]

[...] We are not to be psychic Peeping Toms, but should use these abilities only to help others or, joyfully, as we use muscles and bones. [...]

[...] Let yourself go with the joy of painting what you want to; but forgetting also, again, the idea that your paintings are working out problems, technical or not.

[...] They create out of the joy and natural necessity to do so, and their productions also exist in a realm far too large to be so easily categorized.