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(Long pause.) They end up actually threatening their children, though usually they do not of course understand what they are doing. A mother might say, “Don’t run, or you will fall down,” or “Don’t talk so much, or people will not like you.” In any case, often children grow up with the idea that proper behavior consists mainly in avoiding danger. The emphasis is not upon pleasure, but on the avoidance of pain. Children are taught to repress their emotions rather than to express them.

It is important that adults (pause) uncover such instances from their own childhood. As adults they can form a kind of understanding parent in their own mind, until they learn how to be sympathetic to their own behavior, and until they realize that life itself is an expression—not a repression.

(Long pause at 4:40.) Comments for Ruburt: today’s additional motion further shows his improvements as body and mind both throw off old shackles of repression.