“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] And as I have told you often, you are a spirit now. [...]

[...] As I have told you often, you are a spirit now. [...]

Now as I look upon you all in spirit, I will let you take a break. The trouble is however that you do not often enough look at yourselves in spirit. [...]

When Ruburt is in good spirits and physical condition, at the end of the day let him note down, briefly, what he has been doing and thinking about. [...]

Once again I accelerate those coordinates that activate healing, exuberance, and well-being — and therefore touch the source from which, indeed, the spirit of life itself springs.

He has been able to see for himself how inner heaviness of spirit is instantly reflected in his physical condition. [...]

(To Ned.) Though we had an honest answer from someone over here in the corner, I would still like a more adventurous spirit so when you ask yourselves the questions during the week then allow yourself, my dear friend, to feel the uniqueness and the integrity of your own personality as you now know it and realize that there is none like it, in this universe or any other. [...]

[...] Relaxation allows the body to rest securely in the source of its being, and refreshes the mind and spirit as well.

[...] So when you think of spirits, in your terms, you think of spirits without the individual characteristics and there are many that would be comparable in terms of an analogy only. [...]

Again, it makes little difference whether Sue’s voices belonged to definite incorporal spirits or whether they were therapeutic hallucinations adapted to impress her conscious mind. [...]

[...] Just before going to sleep, I gave myself the suggestion to have a dream that would raise my spirits and restore my native enthusiasm.

[...] The dream generated sufficient energy to lift Ruburt’s spirits and allow his normal enthusiasm to return in full force. [...]

[...] In that regard you saw yourselves as like spirits. [...]

The soul fantasy, or spirit fantasy, arose at about this time, and has been a disadvantage to him because it gives a name and a designation to one part of the whole self, setting it up against the other part. [...]

[...] The spirit is no less real because man has clothed it in such foolishness.

(During break we engaged in a spirited discussion ourselves, then broke it off when we realized this might influence the session itself. [...]

[...] (Humorously): Could spirits be anything else?

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality. [...]

[...] EXPANSION OF SPIRIT ALLOWS PHYSICAL ORGANISM TO EXPAND, RELEASES PRESSURES.

[...] If there are spirits, they must have better things to do than going around moving Ouija boards.”

[...] (A simile I often think of here compares Eastern and Western life and thought with the right and left hemispheres of the brain; they’re separate, yet united; each half performs functions that complement and to some extent overlap those of the other, and together they operate as a whole.) But we dislike the idea of nirvana in Buddhism and Hinduism, which calls for the extinction or blowing out of individual consciousness, and its absorption into a supreme spirit, usually after a series of lives. [...]

[...] It may be natural enough for us in the West not to enjoy the idea of surrendering our individual natures upon physical death, even if intellectually we can understand, for instance, the Buddhist teaching that “perfect” joy can be found in the eventual, blissful surrender of the self to a supreme spirit — although I note with some humor that personally I’ve yet to determine how the self who surrenders knows it’s done so if it’s been so thoroughly absorbed.

[...] And whenever I read about conventional Eastern conceptions of a supreme spirit, I remember what Seth had to say in the 596th session in the Appendix of Seth Speaks: “I have used the term ‘expansion of consciousness’ here rather than the more frequently used ‘cosmic consciousness’ because the latter implies an experience of proportions not available to mankind at this time. [...]

[...] Now in the philosophical area we are discussing, you are also dealing with imaginative leaps, with casts of mind and spirit that are as rare as true artistic ability is. [...]

[...] In the most mundane of terms, try to maintain your good spirits. [...]

They were also meant to show appreciation for your work, jointly, when it seemed you needed it, and therefore to revive both of your spirits. [...]