1 result for (book:ecs3 AND heading:"esp class session februari 9 1971" AND stemmed:thought)
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
You have been much given to thoughts of death this evening. Now, I have been a very lively corpse many times, but then, so have you all. And the inner portions of yourselves know this well. You have walked away from more graves than you can remember and will, indeed, many of you, walk away from more. Why then do you worry about justifying your own existence in this hour?
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Now when I said in the last class session that I preferred, if you must project your thoughts and images upon me that, instead of thinking of me as a wise old man, you thought of me as a lark in the morning, I meant because I am such an old bird. And you may take your break.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
You are not programmed. Nothing happens because it must happen. Every thought that you have now changes reality. Not only reality as you know it, but all reality. In your terms you alter the past and the future.
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
([Joel:] “I understand. I just wasn’t sure if I had misunderstood that you had said this set of circumstances had been decided by a previous personality, in our terms, and I thought you had probably meant by the whole self.”)
[... 21 paragraphs ...]