“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All, all–life is full of vitality, and all life is joyful, and sitting around the table with long faces is not any more beneficial than sitting around the table with wine on it and the lights lit. [...]

[...] Behind that door lies spontaneity and joy and understanding, and from these you have nothing to fear. [...]

[...] There is only freedom and strength and joy and vitality. [...]

(To Kyle.) Now, our friend here is pleased with his new joy and I am glad for him. [...] So in your joy, allow him that privilege. [...]

[...] It takes joy in the vitality that belongs to it. [...]

[...] Our seed, however, who does not have this fine intellect that sits so nicely beneath your hair and within your skull, our seed without the intellect, rests joyfully within the earth knowing it is in the midst of creativity and that from within it, again, another flower will spring. [...]

Now, there is no reason why truth should not be joyful, there is no reason why truth cannot play tricks, even with noses. [...]

[...] It is so that you will know that vitality is joyful, and that personality has eternal validity and that changes continue. [...]

[...] Only beginnings, and beginnings are joyful. [...]

[...] Eating good food, experiencing, again, the joy of reading, the joy of creative thought, the pleasure of friends, and so forth, for those benefits will then be increased more than a hundredfold.

“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 in your terms I have none. [...]

[...] His joy and vitality were obvious. [...] When he spoke of the joy of existence, ringing even through such a voice as his, that deep voice boomed. [...]

[...] This is the meaning of existence and joy. [...]

[...] For reasons that I will get to, and to some extent have told you, you got into the habit of inhibiting joy, and being a stranger to gaiety.

[...] It was about spontaneity and joy, etc.—obvious things, really, which become self-evident once mentioned—and how Jane’s symptoms represent our joint negative thoughts. [...]

[...] But realize also that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs, and that the energy to create any of these realities comes from the inner self. [...]

You should hear your own echo of my voice as a symbol of your own energy and joy. [...]

[...] Travel in peace and joy and safety, in your bodies and out.

Such beliefs discourage feelings of curiosity, joy, or wonder. [...]

Creatures play because the activity is joyful, and spontaneous and beneficial, because it activates all portions of the organism — and again, in play youngsters imitate adult patterns of operation that lead finally to their own mature activity.

(Long pause.) Ruburt is joyfully understanding the miracle of normal physical bodily motion. [...]

[...] I mentioned the joy Seth referred to, and Jane said she felt it, even as she cried while I helped her move her arms. [...]

[...] It is to demonstrate that you are no more physical than I am, and it is also to demonstrate that consciousness is a joyful and a vital thing. Though my voice does not often sound joyful it is a matter of mechanics. [...]

Indeed in joy, for I play at being Seth, in joy, for I am many others as you are many others. [...]

([Theodore:] “But do it in joy.”)

The open has her joy in easy paces. [...]

Your performances last evening are of great value from both of your standpoints, showing Ruburt the body’s capacity for joy, while each of you used mobility of feeling to express your emotions in a physical way.

[...] Your lovemaking joyfully reinforces both of your healthy aspected body images.

[...] To use those abilities that are still yours and to make from a seemingly chaotic pattern of personality and environment a product of joy and fulfillment. [...]

[...] You create from nothing the experience that is your own, and if you do not like your experience then look within yourself and then you can change your experience, but realize also, that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs. [...]

And you should hear your own echo of my voice as a symbol of your own strength and energy and joy. [...]

[...] and it is joyful... [...]

[...] use them joyfully and gladly and well but do not identify with them for they are not you. [...]

[...] and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences.

[...] And as my friends know that I will, I will tell you that all vitality rings...and it rings through this frame and it rings through your own frame—and it is lighthearted; and it is joyful; and it knows not sobriety; as you know, it is a lighthearted thing. [...]

[...] They are not you—you use them—use them joyfully and gladly and well but do not identify with them for they are not you. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality—I was not burdened with intellect—and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences. [...]

[...] When he felt joyful yesterday, the sense of release was translated, as it should be, into physical expression – he sang, for example. [...]

[...] The motion is associated with joy and spontaneity. [...]

(On the evening of April 2, while brushing her teeth, Jane got this flash from Seth: “You need to relearn the joy of physical achievement.”)

(Seth II.) Donot imagine that we are not individuals or that because we seem alien to you that we do not know joy or creativity. Our joy forms universes. [...] Our joy forms the universes that you know and dances through your molecules. [...]

[...] This can be a joyful and an alert experience. [...]

[...] Left to themselves they know their own joy and are aware of such intimate relationships.

Even in psychological circles you are to some extent considered a joyful rebel. [...]

[...] Remember that the body, left alone, will find its own joy and pleasure. [...]

[...] A family can constantly reinforce its joy (louder), gaiety, and spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of vitality, strength and creativity; or it can let half of its energy slip away (deeper) by reinforcing resentments, angers and thoughts of doubt and failure.

[...] It is of supreme importance that you recognize the existence of joyful beliefs, and take into consideration those elements of your own experience with which you have had success.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

[...] Now even as this voice grows stronger let the feelings within yourselves grow stronger and let you feel your own energy from the inner self fill your consciousness and your physical being with vitality and knowledge and the joy of existence. [...] Let the power and vitality and creativity of the inner self within you fill you now with knowledge and creativity and the joy and essence of vitality. [...]