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[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Our Lady from Florence over here is filled with questions that she would ask you. The questions tumble from her mind indeed like heavy blocks. And yet, you have not asked them. He is a good one to answer them for you. And he has answers for them.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
You may ask me any questions that you like. I do not guarantee that I will answer them all. But I will answer some of them.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
It is always up to the individual. There is no predestination. And there is no one who tells you what you must do. The answers are within yourself then as the answers are within yourself now.
([Jack Cross:] “How do you discover those answers for yourself?”)
Now there are many ways—but only one real way. And the way is to begin the journey, as Ruburt told you, into the nature of your own consciousness for the answers are within you andnot out from you—and no one can tell you the answers. Now in one way, each individual will find his own answer—and yet all answers, in another way, are one.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. Close your eyes. Imagine anything that you like that is pleasant to you. It makes no difference what it is. Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time—and you will find your answers. You have only to begin. There is an adventure and it is within you. And there are answers, and they are within you—and you can find them. Now. You have more questions?
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now. I have some questions. It is more difficult for me to form questions than for me to answer them. My question is this—and you do not need to answer it now. You do not need to answer it at any time, to me. It is a question for yourself:
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
I do, indeed. Not the church—but any church. Do not your ideas already leap over the fences and the fields? And do you not already feel hampered within the environment in which you have spent so much time? And are you not only now—and even reluctantly—taking small steps where you would take giant steps? You do not need to answer.
([Jack Cross;] “Yes, I will answer that. Yes, it is true.”)
Your answers to the questions that you gave me will come from within. They will come in an easier fashion if you can free yourself. For you have formed barriers without knowing it—where barriers do not exist.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
The trick is not to try too hard, to realize that the answers are available, that they are there, that you can find them. All that is necessary is given to the flower. And all that you want will be given to you, but you must want what you want desperately enough, wholeheartedly enough. An intellectual curiosity will give you some answers but it will not give you the deepest answers.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
And into this reality you do not go as a grown man with preconceived ideas. You go as a wonderer without preconceptions. And you become acquiescent and the answers are given to you—and to you—and to you.