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The most important is that which is before you most intimately and it is the nature of spontaneity. It is this force within you that gives you your life and vitality that keeps you alive and that allows you all to think these fine and weighty thoughts. The spontaneous self, left to itself, ideally is the answer.
([Ron:] “So you are saying that this type of involvement, because it is the most spontaneously structured, is the most valuable?”)
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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Your spontaneous selves is the answer. Not control, but spontaneity, Now I did not say this, but spontaneity knows its own control, that is an entirely different sort. December does not bring flowers and yet December does not know your means of control. I just wanted to be sure that you understood.
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