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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.
The early problems that helped trigger your difficulty you can now, as an adult, overcome these by realizing that the inner self has its own knowledge and its own ways. You can hear me, and I will see to it that you do. Imagine yourself answering questions that have been put to you. You need not imagine that you are hearing clearly. If you imagine that you are answering the questions, then it will be taken for granted that you have heard them correctly. When you try too hard to hear or see, you hear and see less. Relax and let this be taken care of for you. Now you do not trust the inner self to do these things, and you must learn to accept the inner ancient wisdom that is your own.
(To Sue.) And you must learn also that love is noisy and can be a bother and can get in the way, and you must learn not to deny the validity of your own feelings in those directions where you are now tending to hide them from yourself.
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You are making enough advances so that I expect some more. You are far more lively, even our table moving Edgar over here, in the dream state than you recognize. Now you are having many experiences now that are vital to you in the dream state, and I want you to tell yourself that it is easy to remember them. It is not difficult, it is easy, and you can recall these experiences without effort.
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