“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now my humor and my sense of joy are obvious. I would hardly then impose responsibility as opposed to joy upon Ruburt. It took him some time to accept the fact of the sessions, and when he did so nothing would do but that he overdo, and accept them as a task rather than a joyful creative endeavor.

[...] He reacted last month when he had an experience of release and joy.

The sense of fun and joy and spontaneity—all of these things are as important in the dreaming as in the waking state. [...]

[...] You must realize that basic reality is joyful and that the way of life upon which I hope you shall embark is joyful, and if my actions and communication can show you this then I have done well indeed. [...]

[...] There are joys and advantages that will come as a result of your studies. [...]

This does not mean that the demonstration serves no purpose, for all of my demonstrations serve a purpose and this one is to show that there is indeed a vitality that lives beyond the grave and that there is joy, and the personality continues to exist for this most willing and friendly associative man can permit me to speak in the most fearless and carefree tones. [...]

There is a beauty and a strength and a joy in looking within yourselves and a freedom from bondage. And I hope that when I am finished with you all, you will taste some of that joy and freedom. [...] You will find this joy and this freedom by learning to look inward and by realizing that you create the reality that you know. [...]

[...] That you do create your reality, that you do have the freedom and the joy and the responsibility of forming the physical reality in which you live. [...]

Each consciousness, regardless of its physical form, is filled with creativity and joy and possibilities—each is unique. [...]

[...] It brings with it not only responsibility, but joy such as you have never known. [...]

[...] Now, imagine (underlined) how you will feel when your paintings sell, the joy that they will bring others, the joy that you will feel knowing they are wanted. [...]

In his imagination, let Ruburt feel the sense of joy and release he would feel if he had run down the back stairs easily and joyfully. [...]

Form your new reality with as much trust and love and confidence, creativity and joy, as you do a painting, or Ruburt a poem. [...]

[...] Have him instead simply imagine his joy and freedom with the performance completed, and forget the means.

[...] He must think of it as a joy, a comfort, an aid, rather than a rigid bony thing he must put up with. He should consider it a thing of joy to himself and to you.

[...] I am free to express my joy, for from it springs my life. [...]

“I can see easily and well, for within my sight there is the freedom and joy of the universe. [...]

[...] You projected your own negative patterns of thought upon those who gave joyfully. [...]

I cannot explain adequately that basically childbirth is a joyful—one of the most joyful—creative activities. [...]

(Pause.) All creativity is basically joyful, it is play in the highest sense of that term, and it is always alive with motion. [...] (Whispering:) Ideas change the chromosomes, but the sessions and Ruburt’s books, and so forth, must first and foremost be joyful expressions of creativity, spontaneous expression that fall into their own order. [...]

[...] You will learn to recognize within yourselves the joy and the true reality of being. You will learn to distinguish between the reality of joy and pseudorealities that you have created, or you will begin again. [...] And you will create with joy and spontaneity when you recognize that within the leaf of a flower the consciousness that is within it, and relate it to yourself, and honor it and treat it as a little brother, you will be free. [...]

[...] And do not cower and do not cry, but sing in pure joy that your consciousness knows itself and that even in your ignorance you create and give joy to others. [...]

[...] And through being ignorant, I learned the joy and the wisdom that has nothing to do with the intellect. [...]

Again, however, remember: The knowledge within yourselves is not sober, it is joyful; and that the energy that comes through this frail frame is also available to each of you, in your own way. [...]

Joy and the spontaneous expression of it will always bring increased strength and resiliency to the personality. It also brings deep and abiding satisfaction to the subconscious, which is much more joyful than it is given credit for. [...] The expression of joy also makes the ego more resilient, less fearful, less resentful of diverse conditions when they occur. [...]

[...] As a further benefit there will be increased joy, and a feeling of oneness with the self, and with reality in general.

[...] At times he badgers you, but his remarks concerning the importance and indeed the strength of joy, should be well taken.

[...] When one fears to experience seemingly unpleasant emotions, the personality also tends to set up an emotional pattern of rejection that seriously cuts down, also, not only on the expression but the very perception of joy.

[...] His late feelings of joy and release and the refreshment he is finding in nature, released him from private circles of nervousness, and opened channels through which positive energy did accumulate.

[...] It is born and nurtured in those feelings of peace, joy and contentment that he experiences watching his oak tree. [...]

Ruburt has found again what you never really lost—the sense of daily joy of existence—which he allowed himself unknowingly to relinquish for some time. [...]

[...] Feelings of desolation outbalanced feelings of joy. [...]

[...] In your relationship you inhibited the expression of joyful and loving emotions first. [...] By the denial of hope and the inhibition of joyful emotions he tried to protect himself against disappointment or defeat.

[...] You will soon find joy and spontaneity therefore quite automatically and freely.

[...] You are afraid then not of the negative emotional release—which meant, to the degree mentioned, safety—but of the joyful loving emotions. [...]

Gradually he inhibited the love and joy, and you the negatives until your lives lacked those natural rises and falls in feelings in tone. [...]

[...] Its intensity and brilliance, its contrasts and similarities, its joys and its sorrows, are here for you to perceive, whose eyes are opened by the fact of the doctor’s pronouncement.

In the entire fabric of your existence, this life is a brilliant, eternally unique and precious portion, but only a portion, from which you emerge with joy and understanding whether you die tomorrow or in years to come. [...]

[...] Feel and appreciate the joy of your own being. [...]

[...] Carried too far, such an idea can lead to an isolationism in which only work is important, and the daily joys experienced by others become unimportant and trivial. The very intuitive feelings behind the writer image were based upon the mysticism of nature, the joy of creaturehood; and yet pursued with too much literal-mindedness, the determination to write, once equated with work, led to important denials in those precise areas.

[...] In the meantime his intellect and intuitive abilities both discovered that the daily joy of living was important—as important as “work” or money.

(“I was suddenly caught up by swift joy,” Jane wrote the next morning. [...] It was so joyful I couldn’t sleep for a while. [...]

[...] really, encouraged, damn near joyful; then why the restraint? Do I think he’ll be annoyed—he might be—my foot feels joyful—quite a change! [...]

[...] The Something is subjective, but its effects have appeared so beautifully and effectively in physical terms, that the physical changes themselves add to the subjective joy, relief, and sense of direction.

[...] Spiritual and (psychic) sense of joy, thankfulness, release.

Working with subjects that initiate joy within you will also help free you, though you are to some extent frightened even of joy, distrusting it. Still you will experience freedom when you deal with subjects that are evocative to you, of the joy of life or abundance of nature. [...]

[...] Concentrate upon the chores joyfully.

[...] It should be done joyfully. [...]

joyfully know their being within us

and we follow with joy the direction

[...] Even at an early age, children joyfully explore all of the possibilities of all sensations possible within their framework — pain as well as joy, frustration as well as satisfaction, and all the while their awareness is propelled by curiosity, wonder, and joy.

The reason and the origin and the joy of your existence is within you all. [...] My voice is turned up to show you once again that vitality and your search is not sorrowful and is not for repentance, but is a joyful—and ambitious—and lively thing—and that the energy within you flies through your own being as the birds fly though the sky. [...]

[...] In a million universes, who am I that I should grow and develop?” It uses its abilities spontaneously and with joy. [...]

[...] And if you had more of a feeling of joy, you would look inward more easily and if you approached it as a child again, you would find some freedom. [...]

[...] Now, there is joy in all this—and there is spontaneity—and you do not have to think in terms of walking into the inner self in a sack of ashes and crying repentance. [...]

Now you have said something and you can let out your joy in this room in class and also, your great fears. [...]

[...] A joy beyond all concept and its threshold is your own feeling. [...]

[...] You do not realize that you are often out of touch with your own feelings of joy and spontaneity. [...]

[...] You cannot, therefore, be joyful. [...]