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People must be instinsically free, or they will begin to impede their own expression.
They will begin to follow a road of denial and repression, and grow more and more afraid of expressing their own talents or abilities. Parents often promote such ideas by teaching children that they live in an unsafe world, filled with enemies. Such children at an early age become frightened of their own impetus toward expression. They are afraid, again, of freedom, for to them freedom implies danger and even mortal peril.
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Human beings, and all creatures for that matter, have a strong inner impetus leading to action and expression. If anything impedes this natural smoothness and coordination (pause), then all aspects of expression are in one way or another impeded. The cells and organs and muscles and bones all grow by expressing the natural, innate expression characteristic of their kinds. There is a spontaneous order that directs their motions and leads them ever onward to further expression and fulfillment.
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At the present time they may only represent distant ideals, against which mankind measures itself, yet many of them can indeed be realized in the world as it is, if only people become more aware of their expressive capabilities so that the main direction of their lives are expressive rather than repressive.
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The hospital, for all its healing intentions, is often a repressive institution rather than an expressive one. Ruburt’s progress has become noticeable enough, however, to be commented on by others, so you are beginning to change the opinions of other people also, and their attitudes toward you. To that extent, the environment becomes less repressive, and begins to build up a bank of beneficial suggestions, which can prove as helpful as the negative suggestions were detrimental.
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