“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] And with each portion of your thought and desire you can leave it as freely as a vagabond who can then find peace and joy and contentment in any corner of the universe and reform your body as well with joy and exaltation, and not fear it will disintegrate or disappear while you are gone. [...]

[...] And it can also be used to acquaint you with the easy release of energy that is your own, and the free spontaneous joy of expressing it. [...]

[...] I want that Mu to be as loud and hearty as you can make it, and I want you to take it and joyfully, and let it go through you completely. Not in fear but in joy. [...]

The dog does not recall joyful appreciation of his own state of grace from a past, nor anticipate a recurrence in any future. With the large freedom provided by the conscious mind, however, man could stray from that great inner joy of being, forget it, disbelieve in it, or use his free will to deny its existence.

Dictation: The state of grace is a condition in which all growth is effortless, a transparent (pause), joyful acquiescence that is a ground requirement of all existence. [...]

[...] The past contains for each of you some moments of joy, strength, creativity and splendor, as well as episodes of unhappiness, despair perhaps, turmoil and cruelty. [...]

[...] This means that the pieces will fit together whether they are joyful or not.

[...] Youth is denied its wisdom and old age is denied its joy.

[...] Use them in peace and joy. [...]

[...] Therefore, explore yourself with joy and understanding. [...]

[...] There is joy also in the universe besides your problems, and the joy is paramount. [...]

[...] With a more painful heart I yearned for my wife to walk to me, hips innocently and joyfully swaying, as she used to do years ago, when she’d meet me every day as I left the printing company where I worked as a commercial artist. [...] Not that I wanted Jane to be magically transformed into a 25-year-old again—just that I ached to see a resurgence of that uninhibited, unplanned joy of motion for its own sake. [...]

“Men and women have joyfully honored 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. [...]

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

[...] Action does not differentiate between pleasant, painful, or joyful stimuli. [...]

“Without this acquiescence to even painful stimuli, the structure would never maintain itself, for the atoms and molecules within it constantly accept such stimuli, and joyfully suffer even their own destruction. [...]

[...] You have not been able to take advantage of the yard or the ground available as positive things of joy and refreshment, and have therefore been denied an extra advantage from this place, and the conditions that Ruburt has enjoyed.

[...] (To me:) You are largely the one to be satisfied, for Ruburt will find joy in almost any environment that he considers his own; you see he personifies in a way that you do not; any place he is in is his place, to his mind, as this is his yard. [...]

[...] When you are joyful you break out of yourselves. [...]

([Joel:] “Joyfully?”)

Joyfully and with great pain. [...]

[...] This does not mean “lying” to yourself; but if it seems to you that your background held no joys, accomplishments or pleasures, then you are lying to yourself now. [...]

[...] Later in the book we’ll show how your individual beliefs attract you to joys or disasters. [...]

[...] Far be it from me to monopolize the conversation, but I expect you all to work and the work can be joyful as many of you know. [...]

[...] No God can change it for you for He has given you the creative energy to form your own world, and you can change it through joy and not through dignity. [...]

[...] Playfully now, for the relaxation and joy of doing it, let yourselves imagine the things you want to do, as a creative game, because of the intrinsic pleasure involved but without Ruburt expecting, or rather demanding, instantaneous results.

[...] In fact it is a stage clearing the way for new action, and to a certain extent the handmaiden of encouragement and joy.

(12:30 AM.) Since you are talking to Ruburt from your outside, and telling him what to do, when you are not personally saddled in the same way that he is, then how often have you ever reassured him that he could indeed walk properly, get up easily, or joyfully tried to reinforce his confidence?

[...] It will also serve to release feelings of joy that you have inhibited. [...]

[...] As the session is followed Ruburt’s joy will be liberated through the body in the same way. [...]

[...] In Ruburt’s case the body, where the lack of joy showed, and in your case in the paintings, where the greater expressiveness will now add—and has—its own vitality.

[...] There are joys that can lighten your burden. [...]

[...] You have only to realize that truth is a joyful thing and not to be feared. [...]

[...] And our friend, Ned, for all his troubles with your draft board, is quite well aware of the nature of existence and joy, but it is because you are so well aware of it that you become so desperate in the field of reality in which you are presently focused, and you must find a way to give that joy and freedom a release in the reality in which you are presently focused. [...]

[...] There is no growth without strain, without the shattering of old barriers and the learning or new responsibilities but these responsibilities are experienced as joys. [...]

There was an unabashed joy with the splendor of the body, and sensuous delight, that Ruburt can now remind himself of, and that served to help regenerate at least portions of Christendom that were given to ideals of bodily denial.

[...] The pagan “Joy of life” in its own way sparked new blood. [...]

[...] He had enormous vitality, bounding about, killing with a joyful childlike innocence, if you can put it that way. [...]

[...] Your full energy for work and your creative drive is released, and will be, as you creatively use and understand your problems, but not concentrate upon them, not let them close your eyes to the joys and freedoms that you have. [...]

Releasing the repressed feelings will also clear the way for freer expression of joy and exuberance, so while repressed feelings are being freed, do not forget to concentrate upon the positive aspects also. [...]