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Both of you have this thing about noise, and so I will speak to you both at once. And all of you in class did very well. This young man came up with some very good ideas about you as did everyone else in the room. It is only for you now to see and to hear. The world is not as tumultuous as you imagine it to be, and you can hold your own within it. You can, indeed. You can clear your own ears and your own vision. All you have to do is realize that within yourself is the ability to face each life, each day as a life, as you come to it. You are trying too hard now. You must relax and trust the inner self to see and to hear.
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It is connected with Sean, but it also has deeper roots. I will see that Ruburt tells it to you. This also has to do, however, with the fear of exterior stimuli and the basic fear that it will sweep you away, destroy your person and (words lost) of it. You have no security and these thoughts and feelings are highly erroneous. You have physical senses for a reason. They are to help you, not to hinder you. When you refuse to use them for whatever reason, you lessen your own abilities and your own effectiveness as you know, but this is not ever thrust upon you. This is a method of learning, and as you learn you will solve the problem.
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It takes effort to inhibit your memory of your dreams. It is harder to put up that inhibiting factor than it is to simply remember them. So you no longer need to use the effort to inhibit the memory of your dream. You can tell yourselves that you can simply let that effort go. You do not need to use it in that way. Now when you are ready, and it is work in probabilities is a prerequisite, you will be able to meet and remember so that we can carry on class twice a week. And you will only have to pay for once. And you will remember both the location and what you are learning. But it is not handed out to you on a silver platter. Your own abilities operate here, but this is within your reach now.
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