“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It would be most beneficial for you to do some painting outdoors, or to walk outdoors.

(To Laurie.) Our painting friend. Imagine yourself playing at your painting with the spontaneous feeling a child has. [...]

[...] If you would express yourself more often as you did in your paper, either through poetry or prose or painting, you would feel great release. [...]

(Yesterday and today she did paintings of a bouquet of daisies and sweet peas that the Bumbalos brought back from their lakeside cottage. [...]

(9:10.) A concentration upon painting, or developments about the home, with as many diversions as possible will also help, again, so that the entire personality can activate the entire system for healing processes. [...]

Earlier it was merely a possibility, as for example a painting that you may paint next year is now only a possibility. [...]

[...] You should sell two more paintings within a relatively brief time.

(Sunday evening, October 30, I was approached by a friend who expressed interest in buying a small painting, and I promised to show it to him. [...]

[...] You early went into commercial work, where your love of painting could be sheltered beneath the Average Joe’s love of money. [...]

This entire belief system was detrimental enough, when you were devoted to writing and painting as these are generally understood. [...]

[...] To communicate with them on one level, while at other levels you preferred solitude, painting and writing; and you always observed. [...]

[...] If you paint or write steadily, that does not mean you will let all chores go. [...]

[...] Howard wanted to look at some paintings, and of course some conversation ensued involving the new director at the gallery, who was discussed by Seth in the 74th session.

[...] The little painting had turned out well and attracted much notice. [...]

Due congratulations to Ruburt on the sale of his painting.

(Kneeling beside an old-fashioned living room table with a shelf underneath it, I saw a foot-high pile of Jane’s drawings and paintings. [...]

[...] With that understanding, such work would vastly enrich your painting, your writing, and the tenor of your life. [...]

When you had a job the issue was clear for each of you: in your free time you felt you had a perfect right to paint or write, do relaxation exercises or psychological time. [...]

[...] Because of your ideas about time and creative work you felt that painting could not pay. [...]

[...] He kept his channels to energy open, therefore the energy flowed through his work freely, and in a short period of time he could produce a painting that might take years for another as gifted to produce, who husbanded his talent as a miser.

[...] I may even go so far as to sell paintings—but something will be done.

[...] Keeps me from wasting my time with housework; think it’s degrading for R. as a male to do chores so much so the symptoms give us both an excuse; also gives him an excuse for not knowing for sure what he wants to do, paint or whatever, he can blame it on lack of concentration because of me.

(I was painting in my studio, took a break, and went down to our front mailbox and picked up the mail. [...]

[...] This was the last commercial work I was to do for some time; I finally understood that I was simply more interested in painting pictures than in doing anything else. Since I believe that each of us creates our own reality in the most precise terms, it can hardly be a coincidence that at this time of decision my friend introduced Jane and me — for she was just as devoted to writing as I was to painting.

[...] He could not accept a new psychic framework while within it there were questions concerning your joint ideas of business, and divided loyalties about writing and painting; your personal fears, jointly, about spontaneity in general, and the need to protect your talents both from your own sexual natures and the distractions of others.

[...] As you know now, comforting him can be frightening to you, because it returns you both to deep emotional realizations and feelings that you sublimate in your paintings, and even to mystical experiences that you also channel through your work.

[...] With all of this, I was also eager to acquire whatever knowledge was available about both the philosophy and the art of painting.

The sessions, dream activity, Ruburt’s writing of books, his poetry and his painting—these states by themselves contribute to his health. [...]

(Pause.) Painting should be enough, you may think sometimes, but you chose to be the kind of person who wanted to explore the greater reaches of reality, from which art itself emerges. [...]

If you painted pictures, this does not mean that you necessarily should be an artist. [...] If you end up simply painting as a hobby, that will still enrich your life and understanding. [...]

When you begin devoting your time to your painting you will be satisfying then a deep need of your being, and therefore energized. You will feel personally that you are solving problems that you are meant to solve, problems that are nevertheless created challenges having to do with the nature of painting, problems then and challenges that you consider quite worthwhile.

[...] Now you feel that your own best writing efforts will bring you some appreciation and financial success, while you still doubt your best painting will.

[...] If you would forget such ideas as selling your paintings and simply do them, you could clear some barriers.

If you purchase the house, you will paint two pictures in particular, landscapes in tempera, that will help set your name. [...]

You mentioned painting the walls, and this is excellent. [...]

[...] I was working at the time on a painting, unaware of her activity. [...]

(We have been recently planning that I am to leave my job at Artistic at the end of January, and take at least a year to paint, etc., after a month’s trip to Florida in February. [...]

He wants you to leave Artistic and paint full time, to make up to you what you have suffered on his account, and also because he now believes that is the correct course to follow. [...]

[...] Now I wonder if Jane will take my painting full time as a sign that her course of action was right all along, and simply intensify her withdrawal. [...]

[...] He knows for example when you are doing well and when you feel you are in difficulties, even if it seems to you he does not look at a particular painting, or take, notice.

He knows how long you work at a painting before you are satisfied, and he felt that you might be hurt by my book, seemingly so effortlessly written. [...]

[...] He feels how you would enjoy and appreciate painting in the same way that my book is being presented, so spontaneously and quickly, comparatively speaking. [...]

[...] There is nothing at all wrong with wanting, say, to become a millionaire, but if you simply concentrate upon the creative, personal elements in your lives—your writing in the notes, your painting, Ruburt’s writing and psychic freedom, then everything else will fall into place. [...]

[...] The apples did provide the painting connection with the girl, and the dream was very simple—a distorted view into tomorrow’s mirror. [...]