“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This is because the spirit is regaining its joy. [...]

(There was a class discussion of the adjustment to be made going from death on the physical plane to “spirit” plane.)

Now your remark, not verbatim, “Come on, Hon, get with it,” worked to some extent, for it roused his desire to give you a good day, not to spoil it, and his spirits rose to some degree. [...]

[...] The sudden easy improvements you noted, however, as with the speed (in walking), came when he allowed himself some playful rest, and when he kept his spirits up. [...]

[...] The goal is to be achieved through hard work, and as long as you believe this you do not understand what the spirit is.

[...] When you are so serious, you almost always distort the nature of your own spirit as far as your understanding of it is concerned. [...]

[...] You are told that the spirit is perfect, and so you can try to live up to standards of perfection quite impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] A war, in your terms, can be practically experienced as a murderous disaster, a triumph of savagery—or as a sublime victory of the human spirit over evil.

[...] The important thing is to keep up your spirits, again, as the stages result in definite improvement of performance, for these of course then add to your confidence.

[...] In your terms the initial statement was a physical reminder of a covenant already made before spirit was made flesh.

Ruburt chose the parents to see the contrast and learn the best way for him in which purpose could be combined with spontaneity, the will with the spirit. [...]

[...] The drama, then, was far from meaningless, and the spirit of Christ, in your terms, is legitimate. [...]

[...] There is no position, no God from the mountain top, and no dumb or docile medium to be taken advantage of by the spirits or otherwise. [...]

[...] The spirit becomes flesh. [...]

[...] You do not suddenly acquire a ‘spirit’ at death. [...]

[...] A murdered man will not be returned whole and intact to physical life [though he may return as a ‘spirit,’ believing he is still alive].

The form without the spirit will always leave Ruburt cold. [...]

[...] She finished this delivery with a good deal of spirit and humor, particularly the final paragraphs. [...]

[...] It restores the spirits. [...]

[...] He felt it beneath him intellectually to speak of them to you, and felt that you would have no use for him, that you would think he was a cowering, spineless child rather than the independent brave spirit that he tried so hard to be for himself and you.

[...] The miraculous constant translation of spirit into flesh is carried on with inexhaustible energy by these inner portions of being, but in all cases the inner self looks to the conscious mind for its assessment of the body’s condition and reality, and forms the image in line with the conscious mind’s beliefs.

Rob and I don’t refer to Seth as a spirit; we dislike the connotations of the term. Actually what we object to is the conventional idea of a spirit, which is an extension of quite limited ideas of human personality, only projected more or less intact into an afterlife. [...]

Yet that same May, while I was writing the most pessimistic of poetry, I also remember a break in my mood, a quickening of spirit that was reflected in two poems of quite a different nature. [...]