“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A mourning dove makes its lonely lovely sound; Frank comes in to make a phone call—ordering concrete for later today; Rob is typing in another room, the FM radio station is playing a symphony; outside my side window the green leaves shimmer in the air; and again, everything seems synchronized in its own fashion; everything separate yet together. [...]

I hesitate to repeat myself, and yet remind Ruburt of this playful attitude I have spoken of. [...]

[...] The usual idea of order is greatly concerned with serial time, but spontaneity’s natural order, with its origins outside of time, has “all time to play with.” [...]

(Pause.) All creativity is basically joyful, it is play in the highest sense of that term, and it is always alive with motion. [...]

[...] You are unaware of these buried selves, these buried abilities, these buried creative functions and combinations, and yet in other layers of reality these come to the forefront and you allow these their play and the characteristics that you think of now so securely as your own, these are buried. [...]

[...] You all realize that you are playing with vocabulary. [...]

Now you can all play around with your vocabulary, but what you know is not dependent upon words and do not allow them to limit you. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self has no use for play, because it believes so fervently that left alone it will indeed be lazy or childish, or fritter itself away—or, looking at it the other way, it fears that left alone it will only play, or will be slothful. [...]

[...] Try a simple game of pitch and catch, for example, but some physical release in terms of playful activity. [...]

Play your radio—another example—and the two of you dance to it at home if you want. [...]

Now these previews are played out not only for the mind but for the body as well. [...]

[...] On those occasions when you are able to alter your focus momentarily, then the psyche’s greater experiences come into play. [...]

[...] It’ll still be up to me to add my kind of detail to each of those works, but there’s no doubt that she’s enjoying the challenge of playing with the Seth books from the “other side” — my viewpoint — for a change. [...]

What part, for example, does chance play in your life? [...]

[...] She hadn’t labeled it, and I began to play it out of curiosity. [...]

“Let my soul find shelter elsewhere,” Jane said, by way of a quick translation when I played the tape for her a few minutes later. [...]

[...] And in that living endeavor we each play our part.

[...] In a far corner a sitcom rerun played on the large-screen television set. [...]

[...] You cannot afford to play overlong—to hide yourself in trivia—to become so busy that you cannot hear the truth that shouts within you. [...]

Suggestion would of course play a part in the development of these abilities. [...]

[...] Here suggestion constantly plays its part in the formation of the tissues, and in all other such areas of development and growth. [...]

[...] It is obvious that the body is equipped to handle many such distorted actions, but a conflict is hereby brought into play, where constructive energies or actions are not given full reign, and patterns of distortions are set up within the system.

[...] Children draw, play with images, with language, with the sounds of their voices creatively and artistically. [...]

[...] There are all different kinds of artistic development, of course, some more than others directly concerned with the play of life itself upon the artistic capacity, so that generally speaking, now, there are certain kinds of developments that in your world require the personality’s encounter with years of experience. [...]

[...] Have Ruburt play with his ideas and with the ideas in my book, and not overstress this idea of responsibility, particularly as far as my books are concerned. [...]

He feels you also have a role to play in the psychic work that you could not play with a job.

[...] If you did not—I am using his terms now—flirt with him and play with him in those terms, he was afraid he would look for that assurance in other men’s eyes.

[...] The point is that once the play begins, the actors are so completely engrossed in their roles that they forget that they themselves wrote the play, constructed the sets or are even acting.

[...] Go, go, go.
Why not have a band play and give balloons away?
There’s nothing like killing birds
To clean up the business section.
We could feature a Starling Day, for our centennial celebration,
Such elation as the city fathers
And other pot-bellied elders
Did their best to keep the city clean.
We could give ice cream away to the kids who killed the most,
The hosts of observers could yell the cheer:
“Oh, it takes such courage and it takes such brawn
To drop the blackbirds on the County House lawn.”

[...] The fact is that the realization can, and often does, come after the play is well under way, and at this point, the camouflage action is so involved that the realization itself appears in the framework of the camouflage and is often indistinguishable from it. [...]

[...] After the glaring distortions of last session Jane had decided that she must relax, witnesses or no, so as the time for the session approached the radio still played, and we played with Willy, our cat, and exchanged banter with John.

[...] Using psychological time, sit in a quiet room; and I hope this is not impossible, when an idea comes to you, and I presume it will, do not play with it intellectually. [...]

Also in the long run your salesman’s ability, which was partially developed in another life, would play you false under the circumstances which you contemplate. [...]

[...] You are playing with them, but not using them as you want to. [...]

Begin to play music that you like. [...]

[...] You play down your attributes, rather than dress them up. [...]

[...] You can be a very attractive woman, and you can fix your hair; you can play up your attributes, and you know it. [...]

[...] The outer ego then acts out a play that the inner self has written. [...]

[...] Each individual has his part to play in projecting these EE units into physical actuality. [...]

[...] And the electrical and even chemical systems play a much larger part within the physical system than matter plays within their systems. [...]

[...] A child discovers many truths in play and so can you—if you allow yourselves the freedom of spontaneous mental and psychic play. [...]

[...] They do not fit in with your ideas of work (underlined), or with your idea of what you think you ought (underlined) to do, or because you are being too ponderous, and hence shove away many spontaneously playful ideas.

[...] The play of the gods: your natural expression. [...]