“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Rooney even did a final service, for through his death Ruburt faced the nature of pain and creaturehood that his mother’s life had so frightened him of.

(My thinking at this time is that when we allow ourselves expression freely—painful as it may be at times—and live in ways that are in keeping with our natures and abilities, we will achieve that necessary and vital balance that automatically results in creative work, health, whatever material success we require, etc.

It hurt him of course to perform the up and down motions particularly, and he interpreted this to mean that you wanted him to torture and humiliate his body further by forcing it to feel the pain, and that in doing so he was punishing it further. [...]

[...] The ache in her shoulder had let up somewhat, but she was not too surprised now to develop a pain in a foot. [...]

[...] No God created the crime of murder, and no God created sorrow or pain. [...]

[...] The sessions had been very beneficial, giving me several days of freedom from pain after each session.)

[...] The appointment itself had also been a painful one.

[...] But if this energy can be put into a specific form, one pimple, one pain, one ulcer, at least the problem is recognized, localized, and can be treated with somewhat less difficulty.

[...] It was not painful in any way, merely a most intriguing feeling of engorgement. [...]

Some people structure their lives around their children, others around a career, or pleasure, or even pain. [...]

5. I thought of Seth’s material on pain and suffering, as presented in Appendix 12. [...]

[...] Seth’s idea of the nature of pain is also quite divorced, I believe, from current metaphysical thought. [...]

[...] He himself, that is your father’s entity, feels no pain because of the present personality’s problems, since he is working out so many necessary kinks.

[...] Indeed it was almost painful, and I would have been forced to call a halt soon in any case. [...]

The pain in your tooth is caused by an irritated nerve leading to the tooth. [...]

Certain strains were involved that in one way were as natural as growing pains. [...]

[...] The Lindens had not discussed these with us—perhaps they found the subject too painful. [...]

[...] Within our national orientations, within our religious and secular, scientific and artistic structures, we are choosing to go to the extremes of “good” and “bad,” and to deal with the consequences, all stewing together in what seems like an impossible mix of reason and emotion, learning and joy, pain and violence, and life and death. [...]

[...] But except for such minor alterations, or in the case of personal information, which we may delete, Seth’s material is presented as received, and we never arbitrarily eliminate any of it — occasionally to the pain of others, I’m afraid. [...]

[...] From watching Jane for 504 consecutive days in the hospital, I learned that human beings have tremendous, often unsuspected reserves of strength and power, yet I still don’t understand how I can feel such pain and live.’