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Now during the week here is a little assignment for you. I want you to consider the same question, but from a feeling level. What does life mean to you? Then listen and feel the life within you. Sit quietly and listen to the tumult within you. To the vitality within your atoms and molecules. To the alternate periods of peace and tumult that flash through your being. To the activity that courses through your body.
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If the ant spoke, what would he say? Would he step on you if he were as large as you are? Let yourselves go in feeling with these questions. You sit here feeling isolated within your skins and for no reason for you, yourselves, enclose yourselves.
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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.
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