  The coupling to light mesons leads to large widths and shifts of the energy
of the excited states in the baryon spectrum from the predictions of the
constituent quark model with three valence quarks. This coupling may be
modelled by admixtures of sea-quark $qqq(q\bar q)^n$ configurations in the
resonances. A schematic flavor and spin dependent interaction model, similar to
the one which reproduces the low lying part of the experimental baryon spectrum
in the valence quark model, is shown to bring the lowest $qqqq\bar q$ states
with L=1 and positive parity below the states with L=0. Because of the partial
overlap with the corresponding $qqq$ states this suggests that most of the low
lying states in the baryon resonance spectrum have substantial $qqqq\bar q$
admixtures.
