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[... 35 paragraphs ...]
Now, I would not have any husband standing around for his wife because of me. I wish you all, therefore, a hearty good evening, and remember that the dead have a vitality that would put you to shame and allow your own parents to smile when they visit you. My heartiest regards to you all and a fond good evening.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
He is doing very well, but in the case of children, in most but not all, they are able to handle their fears. In a strange manner they are not afraid of their fears. They accept their fears as they accept a chair, or a rock, or a face and then they deal with them. But they are not afraid of their fears in the same manner that you are. Remember, consciousness has its own protection, its own vitality, and trust in the vitality of your own consciousness and of your own way and that is the answer. For you have a vitality within you and you have only to call upon it and it comes to your aid. This applies to each of you. It is only when you fear you do not have this vitality that it betrays you, and then it does not betray you, but you betray it. You have all the energy, all the ability, all the power and all the strength you will need within you to face each and every situation and be the selves you want to be. You have only to know and understand this and you can bring up from yourselves energy such as you never dreamed.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
And now with thoughts of peace I leave you, but sense within yourselves your own vitality and realize that the true source of peace and vitality is within each of you. You have only to be quiet and look within yourselves to discover it and you can do it making far less noise than I do.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]