1 result for (book:tps3 AND heading:"delet session juli 9 1977 saturday juli 10 1977" AND stemmed:threat)
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fanatic
threat
fools
safety
rancor
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Though the fanatic may make much noise in the world, he is actually isolated from all of the world’s ideas except his own. Anything else is seen as a threat. He does not allow the development of his concepts or beliefs, for example. They stop at one particular point—and at that point he wages his battle against reality.
[... 17 paragraphs ...]
Over the years he developed patterns of behavior to deal with threatful situations. In a large manner, and beneath all, the situations themselves could vary, and are not the main issue.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Whenever you reinforce the ideas of threat, defense must be built up. Some threats are realistic and some are not. If you concentrate upon your daily, natural prime events, you will not live under a constant sense of threat. There are too many periods of safety, if you take advantage of them.
If you worry about probable future threats, you lose some of that natural safety. If you do that as a matter of course, you not only lose the safety, but project threat into the future. Sometimes in extreme cases no threatful situations are even necessary. To some extent or another, with the beliefs of your society, people react in just that fashion, and have physical ailments or mental anxieties of one kind or another.
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