“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Such ideas, practically speaking anyhow, deny you the use of creative energy and vitality you think you had then, that you think you do not have now—the unbridled free energy and exuberance you have equated with youth. By equating it with youth in your mind you deny it to yourself in your present, and therefore deny yourself energy that is (underlined three times) available to be used.

Some for you are, also: but divest yourself of all your beliefs that you did not fully understand or use your painting abilities “in your youth.” Forget thoughts like “It has taken me so long to learn.” “Why couldn’t I have known when I was a young man about my abilities, and how best to use them?” Think of yourself as a young man using them, and you will automatically be free of many hampering concepts in your work.

To let these ideas go was to let his youth go, and to admit that many of those ideas, believed in so strongly and so stubbornly, were not working any longer. Even your remarks about a black-haired wife meant the image of a woman in her 20’s—the-younger-than-you obviously youthful, spontaneous and cute wife; not a 44-year-old woman with experience behind her, some sense, and who could stand on her own feet, but a much younger version, youthful enough to get into trouble, and to be humorously watched in that regard.

[...] Much of this is based on the youthful feeling he had to direct his energy toward his work. [...] To give up the youthful ideas was to admit that he was no longer the young writer.

[...] The beliefs behind these were quite applicable and helpful to a youthful personality. [...]

[...] Undue stress is laid upon youthful beauty and youthful achievement, so that it appears that all of the rest of life’s activities must suffer by contrast.

[...] This is aside from the impact of the entertainment industry, which reflects that same glorification of youth, and that fear of growing old.

(9:34.) The so-called youth culture, for all of its seeming (underlined) exaggerations of youth’s beauty and accomplishments, actually ended up putting down youth, for few could live up to that picture. [...]

[...] As a consequence some young people die for the same reason: They believe that the state of youth is somehow dishonorable. [...]

[...] It is not dependent upon your youth. [...]

[...] It is not dependent upon your youth, it is not dependent upon your body. [...]

Quite frankly, they are of such a nature that youth could not bring them to fruition. [...] You could not use them as a youth, fully, anymore than Ruburt could have used his psychic abilities without gross distortion. [...]

As his own early youth vanished and nothing was done, he grew more frightened. [...]

[...] As he became afraid that youth left him and that your drives to paint and write were not as secure and overriding, then he became even more in need of reassurance.

[...] With the current concepts held by your society, men and women fear old age from the time of youth. [...]

Now: You equate the color white with brilliant consciousness, good, and youth, and the color black with the unconscious, old age and death.

There are ways of assimilating your inner knowledge, your contrasting values of light and darkness, good and bad, youth and old age, and of using such criteria to enrich your own experience in a most practical fashion. [...]

[...] You most probably take this to mean that I am implying the possibility of an unending state of youth. While youth can be physically “prolonged” far beyond its present duration, that is not what I am saying.

(11:32.) Physically, your body must follow the nature into which you were born, and in that context the cycle of youth and age is highly important. [...]

[...] Eleanor also represented on another level the establishment, the rich, literary, “in” crowd, and the great youthful specialized ideas of literary success.

[...] They were coming to him when he so desperately had wanted to join them, thinking that his idealized, youthful hopes would there find fruition.

[...] The youthful body was able to maintain an equilibrium. [...]

[...] The texture of his body is becoming more youthful. [...]

It is because of this that he speaks through you, because of your youth, and because your condition in this system or life somewhat approximates his own situation within another system. [...]

[...] You have done very well, particularly in regard to your youth, and you have my congratulations indeed. [...]

[...] I thought the head was too small, but well done, quite youthful with curly black hair and handsome features, as one would expect such a magical character to have. I also saw that the head was almost too youthful for the strong physique of the character I’d drawn, although I wasn’t critical of this. [...]

[...] At dream’s end Rob says that the head was almost too youthful for the body he’d drawn — maybe a reminder that the natural person is younger in ways than the intellectual self. [...]

[...] I’m not sure of the connection unless it means that at the time he knew Tom, as youthful artists both Rob and Tom believed in the magical aspects of life — which now come to Rob’s aid, assisting him by drawing the character’s head.”

In her thirties, it seems to her that youth is fast fleeing, and in line with her beliefs she cannot see a woman who is much older being desirable. [...]

Often, of course, those who try the hardest to be “good” do so because they fear for their basic worth, and those who speak of having youthful minds and bodies do so because they are so terrified of age. [...]

If life is seen as good in this system of belief, then youth is viewed as the crowning glory, from which summit there is no further journey except descent. [...]

[...] Youth and old age both have their place, and within the framework of your race each play important roles.

You stretch, a symbol of the relatively sleepy, unrealized period of youth, early youth, in which you were caught, hence the stiffish arm that was not able therefore to keep the man who is your father with you in time. [...]

[...] Hence he passes you by, the bicycle being a symbol of youth. [...]

[...] If you believe that your existence is dependent upon this corporeal image, then you feel in danger of extinction, for no physical form lasts, and no body, however beautiful in youth, retains the same vigor and enchantment in old age. If you identify with your own youth, or beauty, or intellect, or accomplishments, then there is the constant gnawing knowledge that these attributes can and will vanish.

(“Youth and innocence must have been on our side, back there at York Beach,” Jane said, “when we felt so terrible. [...]

[...] You will accept only those emotions that appear to be in keeping with your ideas of youth. [...]

[...] If you believe that youth is the ideal and struggle for it while simultaneously believing that old age must involve infirmities, then you cause an unnecessary dilemma, and hasten aging according to the negative aspects of your mind.