“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“It is a gift, a boon, an exquisite pleasure, to become physically alive on your functioning planet, couched securely within your dusk and dawn, your existence supported by the seasons and by an overall operation of spontaneous order.”

Concentration should be upon his love of work, and enjoyment and simple pleasures. [...]

[...] Going out was then an escape rather than a pursuit of pleasure, as I suggested.

[...] It’s been a pleasure.”

(4:28.) The sexual aspects of the earlier episode indeed represented the toning-up of the sexual capacities and their pleasurable aspects. [...]

[...] And the small trinkets that Ruburt discovered to his own delight represented the small but very valuable pleasures of daily life that he is now reclaiming.

[...] Playfully now, for the relaxation and joy of doing it, let yourselves imagine the things you want to do, as a creative game, because of the intrinsic pleasure involved but without Ruburt expecting, or rather demanding, instantaneous results.

(To me:) There are several intuitive developments regarding your work that are already in the making, and will bring you great pleasure and a sense of accomplishment. [...]

[...] It’s been a pleasure.”)

It’ s always a pleasure from my end also.

[...] Each of you needs to realize the importance of pleasure for its own sake. You always recognize pleasure in work, but the body also enjoys its own creature-reality, as any animal enjoys stroking—and in the past you have stroked your kitten more than you have each other.

[...] It is a way of assuring your own physical selves that you have a right to physical pleasure, as any animal does, whether or not you succeed in the world, or reach work goals, or meet any of the other issues that may concern you. [...]

Allow your body its simple pleasure. [...]

[...] You envy him his pleasure while feeling you should not feel envious. [...]

[...] Remember that the body, left alone, will find its own joy and pleasure. [...]

The same beliefs often spread to economic areas in which (long pause) people who met pleasure in God’s eyes were therefore gifted with wealth and prosperity, as well as good health. [...]

[...] Sound did not convey pleasure. You were not thinking in terms of the communication of pleasure. [...] You will find that if you begin to cultivate the pleasure of sound, this will help you.

[...] You could say: “I am making these for class members” and therefore justify the pleasure.

([Mary:] “That’ll be a pleasure!”)

[...] Abundance is a good word to use, for it signifies a free and easy access to all pleasurable things, including creativity, mobility, both mental and physical, and easiness in flow (underlined) of any kind.

[...] Now he thinks he punishes his body for being ill by not allowing it pleasure with you in intimate relations. [...]

The intuitive realization came this afternoon, though he did not realize it, for it is natural for his body to bring him ease, pleasure and satisfaction.

(9:29.) Some s-e-c-t-s (spelled) have believed that spiritual understanding came as the result of bodily agony, and their self-inflicted pain became their versions of pleasure. It is usually said that animals, and also man, avoid pain and seek pleasure—and so any courting of pain, except under certain conditions, is seen as unnatural behavior.

[...] Sportsmen, race-car drivers, mountain climbers—all seek suffering to one extent or another, and find the very intensity of certain kinds (underlined) of pain pleasurable. [...]

[...] In such a way pain becomes a sought-after goal, and pleasure becomes subverted into pain.

[...] You drew because drawing gave you pleasure. [...]

[...] All of the activities that bring you the largest pleasure in life generally are of that nature. [...]

[...] Ruburt is learning to understand that it is safe to be himself; he must learn to rediscover the sources of his own pleasure, for these provide the most dependable indications by which actions and decisions can be taken. [...]

[...] They did what they thought they were supposed to do, but do not feel nearly the sense of accomplishment or pleasure with their lives that they once expected. [...]

Dick finds pleasure in golf, because it represents an area in which he has hope of performing with some effectiveness, of acting with a spontaneity that knows its own order, and of experiencing his natural sense of power.

[...] The dancing, you see, he considers pleasurable. [...]

[...] In this case pleasure on his part supersedes the purpose, and therefore reinforces it. [...]

I await your pleasure as always. My pleasure lies in the fact this evening that I have done our Ruburt some good.

I spoke, for example, of the acquiescence of action at certain levels to any kind of stimuli, indiscriminately, whether painful or pleasurable. [...]

The very nature of the ego and of the personality is formed by the ability to choose between actions or stimuli; but life as it is not connected to a highly differentiated ego, rejoices in all stimuli, as sensation, whether it is pleasurable or painful, for these distinctions do not exist in your terms. [...]

([Sue:] “My pleasure.”)

I do activate those coordinates that quicken your individual and joint understanding, and the natural healing processes that do indeed promote a resurgence of natural exuberance and pleasure.