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[... 6 paragraphs ...]
Now, I will let you all take a break and without looking at anyone in the room, I will come back. Someone who has not been here for some time. I would not have it said that I would pinpoint anyone in particular. Be dazzled by your own consciousness and your own energy and beware of those who set themselves out to dazzle you, simply to dazzle you. Your own consciousness is quite dazzling and it will do you for some time. Enjoy your wine and I will return. I may even smoke one of your long monsters.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now, I have been, in many ways, a sly and cunning teacher, for the material is given in such a way that as you read it and use your intellect and intuitions to understand it, you automatically develop both your intuitions and your intellect and expand the nature of your own consciousness, though part of the training of consciousness itself is in the body of the material as it exists. To the extent that you extend yourselves, your abilities will automatically be developed, as you read and study the material. There are many books and there are many teachers and there are many ways. Some of it is simple but they are quite necessary to those at a certain level of development. If those ways were sufficient to you, that is where you would be. You have become dissatisfied with those ways, but in becoming dissatisfied you must also extend yourselves to learn new methods of perceptions, and you must expand your consciousness.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
Now, I will let you all take a break. One word here and it is something that I have said rather recently in another class. Peace can be excitement but turmoil can, now, be dull. Do not equate turmoil with excitement and peace with turmoil for these are also conventional habits of thought that do not necessarily apply. Traveling can be external, but you can travel around the world and go nowhere and you can sit in your chair and travel beyond the universe, so do not be taken in by conventional habits of thought regardless of which conventions the patterns follow. Be yourself whoever you are, whether alike or different from your fellows. Do you follow me?
[... 7 paragraphs ...]