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[... 27 paragraphs ...]
(To Arnold.) You have been hiding in concepts but amoeba-like. You are beginning to reach out and accept emotional realities. And only these will bring progress. The concepts are important but the emotional realities are the basis of your existence and you cannot deny them.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
(To Arnold.) Concepts will not shield you and true concepts will lead you toward feeling, and the feeling will lead you to intuitional truths that have no need for concepts.
([Arnold:] “I have been stressing the concepts far too much, haven’t I?”)
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now there is a point within each of you, at this moment, in this room at this time, that is a connection with all of reality that you can ever know and this point is a point of feeling. Not of words, not of concepts, not of trial and error, but the point of existence within you that is now present and of which you are all aware. The point from which you run from morning until evening. The point of reality within you that you try to escape because you are afraid of reality and unwilling to accept the responsibilities of it and so you form pseudorealities.
Now, this point is within you at this moment and each moment and it is a point of feeling and awareness. Consciousness poised between exquisite points of imbalance. A knowledge that sings above nonexistence. A joy beyond all concept and its threshold is your own feeling. You must learn, therefore, to accept the feeling of any moment. To cut down the barriers, not between yourselves and others, so much as the barriers that you have set up against yourselves. To recognize within yourself the power that exists within you at any given moment of your time, and do not look away from it. To examine one instant of your feelings clearly, to some extent, is to realize what truth is and the truth is emotional.
[... 51 paragraphs ...]
(To Arnold.) And jump out of your concepts, they are like zippers that close you in.