1 result for (book:ecs2 AND heading:"esp class session decemb 8 1970" AND stemmed:florenc)
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
(To Florence.) Now, this will doubtlessly be our very tardy Lady of Florence. We are delighted that you came at all.
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
(To Florence.) Why is it that you trust everyone else? Anyone with any easy authority, myself included, rather than yourself? I do not want you to think that because I look in any particular direction I am speaking to anyone in particular. Now, you expect me to bawl you out in good terms because you have not been following the pathways within yourself.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
Now that I have given you all these goodies, I will let you take your break. And if I did not care what happened to you, I would not yell at you so. Besides you expect it (to Florence).
(To Florence.) I did not say you were wasting your time, for you were not. I said you were dillydallying; that is not necessarily a waste of time. You were, however, using it instead of the time you could have been using to look further inward.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
(To Florence.) The Lady of Florence is the complete puritan and that part of Ruburt can relate, you see. You have not made the primitive part yet.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(To Florence.) Now, a note. If you listen to your own conscious thought, you will know exactly where you stand. The inhibitions are conscious, now, you simply ignore them. They are not buried in the subconscious now, they are just beneath your stream of consciousness but readily available as your interesting, but brief, monologue this evening made clear.
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
(To Florence.) And if you trusted your spontaneous self, then you would allow yourself greater freedom. Now class is good for you. It gives you a framework that you can trust in which you can allow yourself freedom. You cannot allow yourself freedom within conventional religion at this time because of your own ideas. You cannot allow yourself freedom without any framework because you are afraid of what you will find, so you had better take advantage of the framework that is here presented to you.
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