1 result for (book:ecs3 AND heading:"esp class session april 13 1971" AND stemmed:self)
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
As you know and I know, and with no accusation involved in one way or another, the answer is facile. It is too easy. Now ask yourself some further questions about the answer that you have given and whether or not you truly accept it, using the knowledge from the whole self that is now becoming available to you.
[... 15 paragraphs ...]
It does no good to say that one choice was better than the other, and do not worry yourself with such concerns for you are interwoven spiritually with every atom and molecule that exists within those of your children and your wife. And the spiritual isolation that you feel is a reminder of the inner self that only enters into concourse with the flesh but is of itself independent and knows its origin and remembers even through the eons the miraculous exaltation and agony of recognition that the flesh knows.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
Now you all want to do fine and mighty spiritual things and many of you, as much as possible, want to do these things without facing the self that you know. And in order to have a good framework you must begin with the self that you know, and you must not ignore feelings or emotions, and you must not decide which feelings or emotions you will accept and which you will reject. You will understand them all as legitimate experience and go on from there. You will not hide in concepts, and I will not allow you, any of you, to hide in concepts.
[... 18 paragraphs ...]
The ordinary experiences that come to you as you go about your day come to you from beyond both the conscious and subconscious self, and they have come so naturally, as they should, that you did not realize their intrusive nature.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
It is indeed. You are taking the self that you know for granted without looking beneath it, and you must do this. It is a part of your apprenticeship, and it will enrich you and enrich your source, and that is what I want you to know and realize.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]