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The eyes have improved enough so that he can work near normally enough at his writing, and they will continue to improve. The morning eye condition results from the sinuses. The draining is beneficial. If you understand your power and exert it, and you can, then you can accelerate the process. You must not focus your attention upon past failures. You do not think of any paintings that you did not succeed at. Ruburt does not think of books that he did not finish. All of those things are lost in the light of new achievement. You can coax Ruburt more and encourage him, and exert your power more in that direction. You have not believed you could do that.

When you see Ruburt going too far in one direction, and see him trying to alter that direction, you can indeed exert your energy, leadership and direction there, for the two of you also operate jointly as well as individually. So his overt action also represents latent action of your own that you are not expressing because you have too much sense. Each of you should now and then try to sense your individual power, for it goes out creatively in the books. It comes back to you as evidence when through the mail you see the books help people change the directions of their lives.

You have not thought it would have an effect. I am not telling you to take responsibility for Ruburt’s progress at all, but saying that it is certainly to your advantage, and his, that you exert more energy there in terms of active encouragement. There will be times when you are discouraged, each of you, but when one has confidence at any time, the other can use it. It is that one area where each of you believed you had no power to change events, and that belief could impede your progress, at least, even when both of you want a change.

(Needless to say, when Carl or whoever was measuring pressure on the scale, the other three took pains to see that they were not subconsciously exerting a heavy pressure on the other side of the table,thus forcing a stronger response across the tabletop to get the legs back on the floor. Such checking was easy to do; nevertheless conscious deliberate checks were constantly being made to make certain opposing pressures were not unwittingly being exerted. [...]

[...] Later, Carl tried to consciously make the table describe the same upside-down movement, and discovered that he could not exert enough force while using the same grip on the table top edge. [...]

[...] It was soon discovered that by balancing it at a certain angle with the fingertips, then exerting a downward pressure, one can have an illusion of a force from beneath holding the table up with one leg off the floor. [...]

(One must exert the downward pressure in a manner directed away from the body while experimenting, in order to maintain the balance and center of gravity, and at least when experimenting this necessity to push down and away from oneself is quite noticeable. [...]

[...] He can understand that the best way to use his abilities to their fullest is to relax his body and his mind, to allow both greater freedom, and to exert both. [...]

[...] You have each been afraid to really exert all of your energies to rid yourselves of this problem.

[...] You did not really exert yourselves fully, except upon a few occasions in the past when improvements did definitely appear to be coming to a hopeful conclusion of the difficulty.

[...] In any case, if you follow the latest sessions, and if you both really exerted your creativity and daring in the area of Ruburt’s condition, you would literally be quite astonished at the results.

He has been getting up in the night because his body wants to exert itself fairly regularly, at this period of time. His creative abilities have not deserted him, but it is that fear that they will if they are not consciously, persistently exerted that bothers him. [...]

Your own universe has its existence within many fields, and exists as an actuality, exerting force, within these fields.

Force of various kinds is also exerted by these fields upon your universe. [...]

[...] The other fields of which I speak exert their influences upon the physical organism as it exists. [...]

You believed in them so strongly that he felt he must himself exert those disciplinary tendencies that you earlier displayed for him. [...]

[...] To do this he felt he needed to exert caution, to emphasize his own doubts in order to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end.

[...] You would not spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it would make itself known to you, as you perceived the direction in which your natural impulses led, and felt yourself exert power in the world through such actions. Again, impulses are doorways to action, satisfaction, the exertion of natural mental and physical power, the avenue for your private expression — the avenue where your private expression intersects the physical world and impresses it.

[...] They had been taught not to trust the outside world, and little by little the gap between misguided idealism and an exaggerated version of the world’s evil blocked all doors through which power could be exerted — all doors save one. [...]

You have only to exert your power in that direction. [...]

[...] By now I was rather frightened, yet I thought that I could snap out of it if I really exerted all of my will power — or knew how.

[...] Hardly any pressure was exerted on the pen. [...]

[...] This frightened me a bit further, since I couldn’t exert enough pressure to use the keys. [...]

While experimenting, we found that I could make a rapid decisive motion if I exerted great mental force. [...]

[...] They leave you in an objective actual manner, and exert an objective effect. [...] You could not retain simultaneously all and exert all the thoughts of your lifetime thus far in any normally conscious way. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s forgotten dream was a clear psychological statement in which all of the elements in his personality momentarily joined not only for a discussion, so to speak, but blended their forces, exerted their energies, and set up a firm intent to clarify the entire situation, and to exert all of their energies in a successful healing venture. [...]

Now: you are, of course, taught that any meaningful endeavor takes a great amount of effort of a certain kind—the exertion of the will, the utilization of the time in an organized fashion—and this can promote a tooth-gritting determination in some people.

[...] Because you are so used to the belief in exerting such effort, in the beginning, as I mentioned, some fear can be involved as you begin to let the effort go, while watching to see that you aren’t backsliding instead, or being irresponsible. [...]

The problems arise in response to ideas that you once accepted as facts of life —ideas that have indeed exerted great sway—ideas that are responsible for much of the world’s woe. [...]

[...] And yet at the same time he was afraid of exerting power, for fear it would be thought that he was usurping male prerogatives. [...]

[...] (Pause.) This represented a state of consciousness, the point at which the species began to think and feel for itself, when it approached a certain state of consciousness in which it dared exert its own creativity.

[...] And yet at the same time he was afraid of exerting power, for fear it would be thought that he was usurping male prerogatives.

[...] (Pause.) This represented a state of consciousness, the point at which the species began to think and feel for itself, when it approached a certain state of consciousness in which it dared exert its own creativity.

Now, I bid you a fond good evening—and if you will really remember what I say, and take it to heart, then your chest would not bother you when you exert yourself or worry; and if you would remind yourself during your naptime that the vitality of the universe is indeed surging through your body as you sleep, then you would rid yourself of that annoying difficulty.

[...] Before this book is done I hope to show you precisely how you create each minute of your experience so that you can begin to exert your true creative responsibility on a conscious level — or nearly so.

When he feels like exerting himself he should do so, and when his body seems to want relaxation, then he should follow that line. [...]

S A R. The three exert considerable pressure, or pull. [...]

[...] There will be two other men also of a like philosophy, and the four of you will exert considerable force within the company in the future, and will shape its policy eventually.