“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Neither Jane nor I have the temperament for it, or even the time if we did want to do it. [...]

[...] Some of this has to do with temperament, and with quite normal individual differences and preferences. [...]

[...] When he worked at home the differences in your temperaments became more noticeable. [...]

[...] But beyond that the feeling is that one who has such experiences is by temperament unreliable. [...]

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

[...] You remembered being in Florida—the tempera episode —when you were supposed to be starting an enterprise with Crowder, and at that particular emotional level it seemed to you that you had made few inroads since —and again, you disapproved. [...]

He reacts practically, then, by avoiding what he thinks of as conflict, and you do not help in that regard, for by temperament you are not particularly attracted to the world. [...]

(1. Seth had intended the word zealot, as applied to Paul, to be descriptive of his temperament — not a reference to the Zealot sect. [...]

(I can say that as far as my own memory goes, Seth has furnished a stunningly accurate picture of Aunt Ella, her temperament, etc. [...]

[...] The young man whose face you saw is someone much like yourself, as far as personal characteristics and temperament are concerned.

(Howard bought a small tempera of mine picturing two apples; and then to Jane’s surprise he bought off the wall of our apartment a small abstract oil that Jane and I had produced jointly, in a humorous attempt at working together. [...]

[...] It is an instant recognition of brotherhood and unity of purpose, and in a strange manner, overall, of temperament.

[...] I have drawn it several times, the most elaborate drawing being one I intended to incorporate in a tempera painting last winter. [...]

—of a gullible, pseudomystical type of temperament. [...]

You identified, primarily now, as a poet and an artist because those designations, up to that time, seemed most closely to fit your abilities and temperaments. [...]

[...] A series of housekeepers, of varying abilities and temperaments and staying powers, were provided for them over the early years. [...]