“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Each individual of each species takes that initial zest and joy of life as its own yardstick. [...]

[...] Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet [life] with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect.

[...] All living is a thrusting out toward, and joyful thrusting out toward, the energy that you have not learned, as yet, to use creatively, you call violence. [...]

[...] They ate them, therefore, also with thanksgiving and joy. [...]

[...] Then let yourselves go and be joyful. [...]

[...] Now Miss Grant could, instead, you see, be full of the joy that exists in all personalities and in all pasts, and she could be as much help to the individuals involved but working from an entirely different level. [...]

[...] There are people that you would not share your living room with who do not consider themselves avant-garde or open-minded, who do not understand concepts and are not equipped to intellectualize, but people who feel their own feelings with exaltation and joy and recognize their own identities because of this, and who are, therefore, open to the feelings of others and able to relate to them. [...]

[...] This will free you to express joy and love. [...]

[...] And do it joyfully. [...]

[...] Within each of your atoms and molecules is, indeed, a blessed and joyful acceptance of their own reality beyond questioning. [...]

[...] Now the acquiescence that dwells within your atoms and molecules is an acquiescence that has to do with creativity that knows no negation, that realizes, instead, only the benefits and the joys and the reality of That Which Is, and within this acquiescence there is no denial and no negation for all things are experienced, recognized, and accepted as a part of All That Is. [...]

[...] You are responsible for your successes and your joys. [...]

[...] You are not here to cry about the miseries of the human condition, but to change them when you find them not to your liking through the joy, strength and vitality that is within you; to create the spirit as faithfully and beautifully as you can in flesh.

[...] Your joy, vitality and accomplishment do not come from the outside to you as the result of events that “happen to you.” [...]

For of real love, you know very little; of real understanding, you know very little; but you will learn and you are learning and learning itself is discovery and joy. [...] I have said this many times and doubtlessly I will continue to say—when Ruburt’s familiar body is some 40 years older and my voice in comparison to Ruburt’s sounds like quite a young man (shouts)—That my energy should remind you of the energy that is inherent within yourself and that any energy that sweeps through this small frame comes from the same energy that gives you your vitality and strength and that should bring you joy and fulfillment. [...]

The joy that All That Is rings through every consciousness that lives. [...]

[...] Now life and vitality are joyful and it makes no difference whether or not you have a body. [...]

The tax episode threw Ruburt into a quandary—not only because of the situation, but because you, he felt, felt so threatened that there was no joy in his royalty check. [...]

[...] A suggestion that gaiety and frivolity are also natural aspects of life, and joyful celebrations of existence, harmless, in fact beneficial play exercises on the part of the soul, will help here.

To paint paintings for joy was an act of defiance against your mother, and so you have punished yourself in several ways; by being overly concerned with their quality, insisting upon perfection, and by not making strong efforts to sell them or to work for recognition in that field.

[...] The normal individual felt that he had best leave such areas alone, so in cutting off these portions of the self, barriers were also set up against the joy of the inner spontaneous self. [...]

All of this happens because the inner portions of your being operate spontaneously, joyfully, freely; all of this occurs because your inner self believes in you, often even while you do not believe in it. [...]

[...] Your sense of joy, sorrow, health or illness — all of these are also caused by your beliefs. [...]

[...] You will not only shove down ideas that seem negative, however, you will also shove down feelings of generosity, particularly toward people that you do not like, feelings of joy because you feel too guilty to think you should feel joy. [...]

[...] Health as a means to excellent performance in fields that are important to him; health as a means to use those abilities with which he has been honored; health as a means to bring joy to himself and hence to others; health as a source of strength that is available always to help him use those abilities and to fulfill his destiny here, now...

The focus again now therefore, in his prayers, should be on feelings of peace, tranquility, safety and joy in creativity. [...]

[...] I want you to walk freely and with joy within these other realities that exist now as surely as this room exists. [...]

[...] The other probabilities that you have brought into existence and creation and song automatically, joyfully and creatively. [...]

Ruburt is now, you see, again taking joy in physical motion. This is because the spirit is regaining its joy. [...]

He is as stubborn in it as he is in preserving his joy when he is joyful. [...]

Some other more courageous souls might decide to balance their input, and if the news is bad to turn their attention to the joys of the day, which are indeed immediately present.

[...] It believes in triumph, in pleasant, unpredictable surprises, in unexpected solutions, joyful occurrences. [...]

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

[...] Let me reinforce 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.

The face, in intense (underlined) joy and in intense terror, may often be much the same, but the emotion still will speak within it, and you will know clearly despite the similarity of some muscular effects, which emotion is being expressed.

Between those extremes of terror and intense joy however, where the intensity itself can almost form the same sort of grimace, there are infinite varieties of emotions, these being reflected in every minute shadow and gesture.

It keeps him in touch with the powerful portions of his personality that search for truth, out of joy in the activity for the quest itself. [...]

The truth, as he interprets it, is no longer the joyful, curious, creative, free search for truth, let it lead where it will; but the idea of a life’s work makes him think “Who’s following me? [...]

As your present situation with all of its challenges, joys and problems is contained in condensed form within each of your days, so the same applies to your life. [...]

[...] The joyful and optimistic experiences however also bring about biological changes, and serve as imprints, patterns, for future physical improvement. [...]