1 result for (book:tps2 AND heading:"delet session for mari smith may 3 1972" AND stemmed:pleasur)
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Mary
hear
sound
husband
listen
[... 72 paragraphs ...]
You mentioned some yourself. To you, noise, from your early years, was to be avoided. Sound did not convey pleasure. You were not thinking in terms of the communication of pleasure. It became, to you, a method of conveying unpleasant information, and therefore to be shut off whenever possible. You will find that if you begin to cultivate the pleasure of sound, this will help you.
[... 18 paragraphs ...]
Now. So far, you are denying a good portion of your hearing because sound can be unpleasant, and carrying this a bit further now, it can also be “bad.” You know the three little monkeys who sit: “see no evil” and so forth. Now you have simply hit upon the “hear no evil.” You have added to it the fact that you will not indulge yourself in joy, or in joyful pursuits, Unless you can rationalize to yourself by saying: “I am doing this for someone else,” and that is the only reason you let yourself work with the necklaces that you made. You could say: “I am making these for class members” and therefore justify the pleasure.
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
([Mary:] “That’ll be a pleasure!”)
[... 58 paragraphs ...]
