1 result for (book:ecs1 AND heading:"januari 14 1969 tuesday convers between rachel and ruburt" AND stemmed:confid)
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“The past in our terms doesn’t cause present behavior, because you can go back now into that past and change it in our present. You will have the opportunity to do it because of your intuitive understanding, and this is something that most people haven’t developed enough to do. Now actually that circle and those people are as real as this room seems to the rest of you. Right now this room doesn’t seem very real to me. Now you can if you want to—and without any kind of coercion—look up and see Seth’s face. And in the face you’ll find confidence to leave the group at that time. The confidence you find then will serve you now and help you in the daily life that you think you are leading now.”
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(Ruburt:) “Starting with yourself, counting yourself, the third person down to your left at that time was in conflict with you. The fourth person beyond them was also in conflict with you and you were frightened of them. And because of them you stayed in the group, lacking confidence to go ahead.”
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(Seth:)You quote me. If you remember that you have no problem, then that is the answer. You will not leave this group. If you want to, you will leave the other group—and with confidence. In one probability you have already done so.
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