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(To Florence.) And if you trusted your spontaneous self, then you would allow yourself greater freedom. [...] It gives you a framework that you can trust in which you can allow yourself freedom. You cannot allow yourself freedom within conventional religion at this time because of your own ideas. You cannot allow yourself freedom without any framework because you are afraid of what you will find, so you had better take advantage of the framework that is here presented to you. [...]

[...] Anyone with any easy authority, myself included, rather than yourself? [...] Now, you expect me to bawl you out in good terms because you have not been following the pathways within yourself. [...]

[...] They satisfy a portion of yourself that can say, “I have been to a sensitivity session and I have seen and felt and touched and I have learned, to some extent, to look within myself,” but you are very careful of where you look. And you are not looking in the correct places and you know it and you do not accept the excuses you are giving yourself. [...]

(To Sue.) When you really learn to trust yourself, when you learn emotionally, as well as intellectually, when you learn with your spirit and your gut, then you will learn who you are. [...]

[...] Many in this room have abilities…my dear friend, the Jesuit, whose flippancy does not help him in his dark moments (to Bill) for you are not facing yourself and your abilities. [...] It is yourself with whom you must become friendly and yourself you must face.

[...] You have been shunting aside the full responsibility of yourself, and ignoring them and you cannot for long ignore these responsibilities. [...]

[...] I extend to you all my best wishes and if I sound severe it is only that I would wake you up to your full potentials and I speak to the part of yourself to which you are not listening.

[...] If you shall be friends unto yourself then face yourselves—make peace with yourselves, and I bid you a fond good evening.

[...] There is a reason why you were in the particular spiritual predicament in which you found yourself for there are always reasons. [...] If you have a strong emotional feeling of this nature, then ask yourself for the reason behind it. [...]

[...] So free yourself entirely. [...] Free yourself. [...]

Now, I will give you the information now or later, or you may find out the information for yourself using your own abilities and sources. [...]

[...] You are angry at what you have done to yourself because in a past life you had much to do with the organization that you do not now like. [...]

[...] It is not so much that you put up barriers between yourself and others, but that you put up barriers between yourself and yourself. [...]

[...] You realize by now that this is a futile attempt, but it is also futile to try to reach yourself by imagining that yourself is somewhere else in another universe. [...]

[...] And when you come to class from now on I will expect to find you all here, not just the physical self, not just the intellectual self, not just the portions of yourself that you term, psychically inclined, but the emotional self. [...]

[...] And why should you try to be psychically educated while closing yourself off emotionally from the others who come to class for you all have put up barriers between yourselves. [...]

[...] You must apply them to yourself. You must look within yourself and then apply these truths and learn from them. [...]

[...] It is not enough to listen—you must look within yourself. [...] It is not enough to squint at yourself—to look at one motivation—to accept partially. [...]

[...] The vastness of the vision is within you, the road is within yourself, the truths are within yourself. [...]

[...] You will not get it by saying: “I am the exception to the rule!” You will not get it by running away from yourself. [...]

[...] Beyond that, accept yourself. Accept yourself completely. [...]

[...] Tell yourself that in the dream state this evening you will understand what the symbolism is. And if you do not get the answer, then I will tell you, but it is far better that you learn it for yourself. [...]

You will discover for yourself in what way you have not. [...]

[...] Beyond that, quiet yourself. [...]

Let the prophet therefore be yourself, and yet let him also stand for every other man. In speaking honestly for yourself, you therefore speak also for others, and intuitively they know this. [...]

If you speak for yourself only, or for mankind only, there is a short circuit. Yourself as mankind—this is the answer (pointing to me)—not to the original question but to the identification in art.

[...] Put yourself in his place, and with all of his capacities, and with his wisdom, and what would you be saying, and what emotion would move the muscles of your face?

[...] I had my reasons (smile) for introducing these questions pertaining to the painting this evening—to make available to you certain information that you had, the kinds of questions to ask yourself in other paintings in the future.

Now you have a division neatly drawn for yourself; a framework in which you find yourself acting. A personality that you have set up for yourself, but the fact that you are coming to classes and using the intuitional abilities opens up a slight window in that artificial personality that you have adapted, for in your mind you think—  and if you will forgive me, I will speak for you, but you may make a rebuttal. [...]

[...] You will realize that you are more than you realize that you are now, but you will not lose the state of which you are now aware, and regardless of the fact of reincarnation and regardless of probable selves the unique self that you now call yourself has eternal validity even though the memories that you cannot now consciously recall will be yours in their entirety. [...] It is a particular reality in which you have chosen to know your existence, in which you have chosen to develop yourself, and it is indeed a system, again, like no other system, a unique and dear and beloved portion of reality in which you have decided to flourish for awhile. [...]

(After break, to Bette.) Now for a cousin of Richelieu in the 18th-century France you put up some struggle pretending that you do not understand what you like to think of as intellectual discussions, and you make a great fight against what you like to think of as verbalization, and you pretend to yourself that you do not understand what I am saying when I am saying it. Now you are putting artificial limitations upon yourself that you partially understand and partially do not understand. [...]

[...] And this is a personality that you have set up for yourself because behind it all in the French court you glorified in the use of words, in the high play of intellect in what now to you would seem to be surface, artificial qualities of stereotyped verbal behavior. You are quite able to follow any discussion in this room and it is about time that you realized it and used those intellectual abilities that are your own, and it is about time that you stopped telling yourself that you do not understand that which you well understand. [...]

Immediately get up and rid yourself of the suggestion that you cannot remember. Begin giving yourself the suggestion that you can remember. Now do not hit yourself over the head with the suggestion, simply tell yourself that you are now free to remember your projections. [...]

The answer is so simple that you will not admit it to yourself. [...] You can tell yourself that you do, but until you really want to remember, you will not. [...]

Write it down for yourself. [...]

[...] Now you cannot verbalize what I am or what happens in this room, but then, you cannot verbalize what you are or what happens within yourself or within your mind. [...]

(To Janice.) And do not judge yourself so harshly. [...] Treat yourself as you would a beloved friend and stop hollering at yourself all the time. [...]

You ride yourself too hard in that respect. Tell yourself that you are doing well and you will and you will realize it. [...]

Then that is not a matter of health foods, but of honesty, and that you must deal with yourself, but tell yourself you will know the answer and make the reasons for your objections clear. [...]

You are criticizing yourself all of the time. [...]

You were guiltily aware of this, and punish yourself by refusing to allow yourself to make money with good paintings now. [...]

Not allowing yourself to make money through paintings also allowed you to punish yourself for what you considered this act of defiance. [...]

To paint paintings for joy was an act of defiance against your mother, and so you have punished yourself in several ways; by being overly concerned with their quality, insisting upon perfection, and by not making strong efforts to sell them or to work for recognition in that field.

You made large attempts to close yourself off from deep emotion, in reaction against your mother’s emotionalism, and largely because you felt emotionalism was false. [...]

[...] You may not have always been aware of these other conscious portions of yourself, but they are not vague. [...] simply because you are not used to manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. [...]

[...] You will find yourself, for example, looking through many of these windows at the same time. And in these windows you may view other portions of yourself. [...]

What you perceive, using other portions of yourself, can be far more vivid than the reality in which you usually focus your attention. [...]

[...] It is true, also, that it takes some training to use these other conscious portions of yourself. [...]

(To Maggie.) You will not feel it necessary to take the same kind of agony upon yourself so do not be afraid of it. [...] You are practical in an esoteric manner in that you will use your abilities also to practically help yourself and others. [...]

(To Sally.) You project your own distrust upon other people and then react to it and so you close yourself off from those feelings of trust that others would express for you. [...] Now the distrust was projected outward, and so you found in physical reality those effects that seemed to justify your feelings and, therefore, you hid further and further within yourself, adapting a militant manner to hide the helplessness that you felt. [...]

[...] These relationships were top-heavy, in a strange way, in that you gave so much of yourself that some of the others felt overburdened and not able to respond. [...] I am referring to two particular people at this time, and you should look into yourself and see if you can find the reason. [...]

[...] You realize when you avoid the verbal terms you are also avoiding coming to face with what the terms mean, not only to yourself, but what the terms mean to other people. [...]

[...] And that person will be yourself. [...] You will shove down all kinds of impulses, and so you will not know yourself, and you will block off impulses that you really should accept, recognize and admit as portions of yourself. [...]

[...] Now in your position, you of all people, should recognize feelings within yourself, the effects of others upon you and be even more vigilant of the effect of what you say upon others. [...]

[...] Now you are deceptive, slyly, in your own manner, to yourself, for it seems to you that you are very aware of your emotions, and that they are clear and out in front of you, and that you are an emotional person, and yet you hide them deeply and the emotions that you show are not the emotions often that you feel. [...]

[...] A truth about yourself will pop to the surface of your mind, and you will shove it down quickly rather than take advantage of it. [...]

Now: Take another photograph of yourself at a different age than the first one you chose. Ask yourself simply: “Am I looking at the same person?” How familiar or how strange is this second photograph? [...]

[...] This should also be a photograph of yourself. See this as one picture of yourself as a representative of your species in a particular space and time. [...]

For the second exercise, take a photograph of yourself and place it before you. [...]

[...] That specimen, that individual, that you, represents not only yourself but one aspect of your species. [...]

You blamed yourself for financial reasons, though consciously this would be the last thing to come to your mind. You think of yourself quite free of financial conditions, and as an adult now in independent terms set yourself free of your parents. But subconsciously you wondered what social environment your child would really (underlined) encounter, and whether or not you deprived him of the social and economic benefits that you have convinced yourself, consciously, you do not need.

[...] You never forgave yourself, and now in your first reincarnation as a woman since that time, you decided to be the vehicle through which he could enter physical reality again, and so became his mother in physical terms.

[...] Regardless of what you thought consciously therefore, you still inwardly blamed yourself for letting the child go, and therefore the difficulty with the womanly organs.

You also wondered about depriving your mother of a grandchild now, for though you tell yourself she would not understand, still you wonder if interest in the child would not give her additional impetus and interest.

In denying life to yourself you end up by denying life to others. [...] You do not realize now, you do not let yourself realize, the beauty and the complicated reality of your being. You do not let yourself realize the spontaneity and joyful burst that is your inner self, that results in this present human personality that you call yourself. [...]

[...] You are quarreling, and in so doing you cut yourself off from the joy and vitality that do make life worthwhile living. [...]

You set yourself against all of this, against the gist of life and joy and vitality, and turn your back upon it with the paltry excuse: “If one person does not love me in a male-female relationship in this life, then I threaten to destroy myself, and shatter the form that holds the spirit, and shatter the form like a glass thrown upon the floor, like a child in a tantrum.” [...]

[...] You are trying to hide yourself in one man’s arms.

[...] They are like notes to yourself, reminding you that things are still not as good as they should be. Tell yourself that you can help yourself and Ruburt far better without the disease caused by the symptoms. [...]

[...] This makes you want to isolate yourself, and also prevents you from benefiting from suggestions yourself, and benefiting others through your own suggestions in certain areas. [...]

Now each of you may do the same exercises for yourself also if you want to. [...]

The reason for the difficulty with the muscles is so obvious that I am surprised you did not make the connections yourself. [...]

On the one hand, our work and yours is largely devoted to poking holes into the official one-line consciousness, and on the other you find yourself financially responsible to contribute to its policies.

[...] Here again you find yourself often in a dilemma of your making, between the ideal and what seems to be; if not the grossly practical, something close to it.

For there, you envision on the one hand the best possible book, content, production, et cetera; and as if to purposefully torment yourself, you also envision the opposing “gross practical product” that could possibly result—a product that would only mock by contrast the ideal that is also so vividly envisioned.

[...] Imagine a photograph of yourself (in parentheses: Yes, we are finally back to photographs).³ In your mind’s eye see the photograph of yourself on a table or desk. [...] If the photograph is strictly imaginary, then create an environment about the image of yourself.

[...] Using the Ouija board or automatic writing, you may find yourself immediately confronted with this material that you have suppressed in the past. When it surfaces you may then project it outward from yourself again, but in a different fashion. [...]

[...] A change of environment might help clear your head by altering your usual orientation, so that you can see yourself more clearly, and benefit. [...] Here the possible benefits are far greater than in usual life and travel, but you are still yourself. [...]

Before you go to sleep, tell yourself that you will mentally take a dream snapshot⁷ of the most significant dream of the night. Tell yourself that you will even be aware of doing this while asleep, and imagine that you have a camera with you. [...]