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You might make a small sign: “Beloved stranger: we are working. Please do not disturb us.” You could add to that “Please write a note,” and buy yourselves one of those contraptions for your door. (A mailbox?) Or you might decide yourselves upon some hour of the day or evening when such a guest would be least bothersome. You could decide never to see a guest during the day, for example, and inform such people to come back at such and such a time.
They were also meant to show appreciation for your work, jointly, when it seemed you needed it, and therefore to revive both of your spirits. The same applies to your guests, and particularly to the two young boys from the Sunday school, hopefully showing Ruburt that all conventional churchgoers were not closed-minded, but were also seeking out new knowledge.
Neither of you really, however, took full advantage of the reassurances those visits were intended to give each of you. You have a right to refuse guests, of course, and yet if you learn to work with Framework 2 with greater faith you will find that other issues are usually involved than those immediately apparent.
You could decide to see such people at lunch hour, and no other time, and put that in your note: “Come back at noon.” You could, therefore, make several different kinds of decisions that would give you a free mind for large portions of the time. You would not be rejecting guests at the door, per se, but telling them to return at such and such an hour, or to leave a note. You could compose several such signs, so that one might read: “We are not seeing any strangers today at all,” but there are many variations that you could settle for.
[...] He is given tasks and each room, again, has been planned so that within it all methods of learning are available that the guest will need to perform his task. On our rather bulky analogy the guests are all portions of the inner self, who is the unseen attendant who maintains the building.
[...] But the guests are so engrossed by the wonders of their own quarters within this strange hotel that many of them do little investigating.
[...] Each guest has a peculiar and unique uniform, suitable for his own room environment, and no other. [...]
[...] It is easier however if you have the help of one of the guests in another room who is more used to the passageways, someone who has been investigating a while longer.
[...] I asked some questions designed to keep the material on the level of reincarnational data, since our guests had done some reading on the subject. [...] As it happens, Bill had been a guest also earlier tonight, leaving just before the session.
(This of course startled our guests, but they listened without interruption. [...]
[...] My own thought, as soon as he began to speak, was that I had made a mistake in method, since his appearance was a complete surprise to our guests. [...]
[...] I am doing very well with him, however, and your two guests are doing very well themselves, considering the circumstances.
I am not saying that you should refuse guests. [...] We are not speaking simply of guests, but of a willingness on your part to begin relationships—in line with your work, and of direct contacts, planned in advance, of personal contact.
[...] When he feels he can physically handle guests with some finesse, if not with perfectly normal behavior, you will know that his mental and emotional patterns have changed. [...]
The increased sales do not necessarily involve you with guests of the stature you are speaking of, or with definite appointments made, in which there is direct personal contact.
[...] When Ruburt does not feel ashamed to meet guests, it will seem to him that this is because he is so physically improved. [...]
[...] You would not force yourself to work on those occasions, for your natural need for play of some kind —outings or guests—would then assert themselves. [...]
[...] Your guests will be enjoyed because you will see them when you naturally feel so inclined.
[...] You deny yourselves, say, guests when you feel like having them, because you have already done chores that did not particularly need to be done, because you thought you should, when you felt like working.
Now that your guests are indeed arriving, you may let them enter, or I myself will open the door. [...]
(Jane remained standing mutely by the windows while I showed the guests to seats. [...]
Before we have our first break, I will now welcome our guests, although I regret that so much of the material will not be clear, since so much of it rests upon previous discussions with which they are not familiar.
I have not known either of your guests before, but then I do not have to. [...]
[...] The people, the young people with whom you work, Joseph, are very good guests for you to have. [...]
[...] Evenings at home with guests are very good, but again, such evenings should not constantly be taken up with experiments and discussions, though they have their place at such gatherings now and then.
There will be not, not answers, but questions, shortly for our other guest. [...]
[...] I did not think that our guest had a list of questions from one to ten, which I was being asked to consider.
I was speaking of those questions which our guest asks herself, and these are the questions that she subconsciously would like me to answer. [...]
[...] Earlier caught myself stewing over my windows new room being accessible that is, noticeable; then cleared that up saying that Frank, etc., will be gone; phone book won’t have address; winter coming—but if I have to, I’ll lock the screen door or put up a note working hours no guests; but anyhow I’ll make conscious decisions and take steps. [...]
[...] He imagined the couple at the house, and surprised himself by thinking that he might indeed call them later in the day and invite them down for the evening, even though he and Joseph had both decided against guests that weekend.
[...] Then he became aware that those particular thoughts were intrusive, completely out of context with his immediately previous ones, for only a moment or so earlier he had been congratulating himself precisely because he had made no plans for the day or evening at all that would involve guests or other such activities. [...]