“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: Remember in your portrait the sense of play, and a light hand. Otherwise you lose your sparkling colors and end up with a murkiness that you do not intend. Remember that the soul is plain behind the facade that you see — that even the body is in a constant state of almost magical activity, even though as you paint it in its chair, it is physically motionless.

You want the feeling, within that apparent state of motionlessness, of highly accelerated contained activity that cannot be physically expressed — that must radiate from the painting despite the obvious and illusionary appearance of your figure.

[...] Nothing is motionless. Therefore, when our visitor hesitates between his two doors, he is not motionless, but uses as much energy in indecision as should be expended in purposeful direction.

[...] When Jane sat down again and entered the trance state, she remained quite motionless, with her eyes closed, for over a minute before she began at 10:29.)

[...] If she did them all at once her body would be moving as though it had the tremors throughout, except for the still motionless area around her right knee and the break just above it. [...]

[...] Then Del left me for some reason, and alone I tried to continue — but wound up clinging motionless to a very steep slope lest I slide way down into a deep ravine that would be very difficult to get out of. [...]

[...] Jane sat for a long time motionless in her rocker, eyes closed, as I waited to see whether she was taking a pause or a break. [...]

[...] See them motionless and beautifully relaxed. [...]

[...] I’ve discovered that this is great fun — and much more challenging than I’d anticipated, as I try to reduce the shifting, brilliant dream elements to the motionless painted surfaces we’re so used to in waking reality. [...]

[...] During the whole passage, she sat almost without moving, holding the test envelope almost motionless in her right hand. [...]

[...] In another little drama, motionless like the first one, I saw my Roman soldier suspended in the act of falling from the tower. [...]

[...] Peter’s surprising material, then, helps me tentatively recognize the physical connections those motionless visions of mine may have in our space and time.

[...] Jane sat motionless in her rocker now, head tipped to her left shoulder. [...]

[...] As she sat back down and closed her eyes, she remained quite motionless and quiet for perhaps two minutes before she began speaking. [...]

[...] (As Seth, Jane sat quite motionless in her rocker for well over a minute. [...]

[...] I watched the ship sink on an even keel through the blue-green water to the smooth yellow and tan and brown sandy ocean floor—but instead of settling motionless there the ship began to ‘sail’ or plow its way across the ocean bottom, almost as though it were a car moving along a road. [...]

It must be thoroughly understood that under no circumstances is the personality a static or motionless construction. [...]

[...] She sat motionless on her chair, her head resting upon one hand. [...]

[...] I could feel the blanket over me and my pillow at neck move in odd fashion as if my physical body was making unaccustomed movements, but thought I was motionless. [...]

(Jane now took a very long pause, sitting motionless with her eyes closed.)

[...] It may look upon our world as one frozen or motionless, upon other subatomic particles as very slow-moving indeed, or even faster than it is. [...]

[...] I sat motionless for minutes at a time, bathing in a most beneficial, relaxed state. [...]

[...] Action cannot remain inactive or motionless, though the motion may not always be apparent.