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[... 10 paragraphs ...]
Now I will tell you that many of you, in Ruburt’s terms, and quite unwittingly copped out. You were giving intellectual answers. You were thinking in terms of themes and compositions and all of your answers did, indeed, sound fine, spiritual, highly edifying, but very few of you felt.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
The physical sound that I make, the energy that you sense now is, indeed, a part of the energy that sings within the vitality of any atom and molecule. Within you is so much unrealized and unrecognized and unreleased energy. Now trying to answer questions such as those I gave this evening on a surface will not help you. You are afraid of the energy that resides within you and you often avoid the encounters with yourselves.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
Ideally, it is indeed. Unfortunately when you bottle up repressions and feelings then often a structured procedure is necessary to help you release them. But all of you sit here very nicely, very spontaneously, very alive, very conscious and none of you know, egotistically, how you do so or what make your thoughts work. When you begin to question how your heart beats or why, then you can encounter difficulties if you lose the faith that they work spontaneously and that your conscious knowledge is not necessary for the fine mechanisms that keep you alive. The ego is a great king. It sits in splendor upon a great throne and it usually does not want to know that the power resides beneath.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(To Ned.) Though we had an honest answer from someone over here in the corner, I would still like a more adventurous spirit so when you ask yourselves the questions during the week then allow yourself, my dear friend, to feel the uniqueness and the integrity of your own personality as you now know it and realize that there is none like it, in this universe or any other. And it would be a crime indeed to end it.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]