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[... 5 paragraphs ...]
All right, then you shall be, but you will feel apart from the group unless you do what they have done.
(To Ron.) And when you are ready to feel a part of the group, you will also participate. But when you are ready it will work well for you.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
Now we have done several things this evening and as always our Lady of Florence had a good part to play. The inner gestalt of the group has been opened, for one thing, and a better group unity will result. For another thing, through listening to what others have said you should realize the vitality that is distorted in these deep charges that you often carry within you for these deny you the use of your own energy. They literally tie you up in knots.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(To Ron.) And when you are ready to communicate, you will communicate. To yourself, to the group. And there has been some good healthy give-and-take here but not an inquisition. There are, and I do not want to shock you, individuals who quite humbly and sincerely, do the best that they can. There are married couples who meet in their daily lives with a good measure of honesty, compassion and understanding and the two people that you mentioned relate in that manner.
Now of all the others in the room, those two, in their relationship, have a simplicity and an integrity that speaks for itself and it is, indeed, highly unusual. The biggest secret that this one has over there, (Arnold), if you will forgive me, is a deep feeling of inferiority that is disguised sometimes as humbleness. This I know and this, intuitively, the other members of the group know, but your questions and the fact that you question it, this is good, here or in any other place or in any other group. But do not question yourself out of feeling or emotion and do not build up a barrier in your own mind for there are no barriers here.
Now as far as the group is concerned there is always a method in my madness, as there is a method in your own madness. The creative selves within you know what you are up to and I know what I hope this class will be up to and you must have faith in each other and trust if we are going to do the kind of group experiments that I have in mind. If you do not have faith in each other in the body you will have none out of it.
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