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assert their own private power in a group, and do to you: the order of nature; the creative drama of
not seek to hide within it. your dreams, that project your consciousness into
other times and places; the very precision with
Session 854, Page 231 "No one is as fanatical, and which you spontaneously grow, without knowing
no one can be more cruel, than the self-righteous. how, from a fetus into an adult; the existence of
heroic themes and quests and ideals that pervade the
Session 856, Page 238 "Psychologically, your life of even the worst scoundrel -these all give
impulses are as vital to your being as your physical evidence of the greater context in which you have
organs are. They are as altruistic, or unselfish, as your being.
your physical organs are (intently) and I would like
that sentence read several times. And yet each Session 859, Page 249 "Meditation must be
impulse is suited and tailored directly to the followed by action -and true meditation is action.
individual who feels it. Ideally, by following your
impulses you would feel the shape, the impulsive Session 860, Page 251 "Each individual is innately
shape (as Ruburt says) of your life. You would not driven by a good intent, however distorted that
spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it intent may become, or however twisted the means
would make itself known to you, as you perceived that may be taken to achieve it.
the direction in which your natural impulses led,
and felt yourself exert power in the world through Session 860, Page 254 "Yet that is precisely where
such actions. Again, impulses are doorways to first of all you must begin to exert yourselves.
action, satisfaction, the exertion of natural mental There, on your jobs and in your associations, are the
and physical power, the avenue for your private places where you intersect with the world. Your
expression -the avenue where your private impulses directly affect the world in those
expression intersects the physical world and relationships.
impresses it.
Session 860, Page 255 "What you call nature refers
Session 857, Page 243 "The desire for suicide is of course to your particular experience with reality,
often the last recourse left to frightened people but quite different kinds of manifestations are also
whose natural impulses toward action have been natural outside of that context. "
damned up -intensified on the one hand, and yet
denied any practical expression. Session 863, Page 261 "Quite simply, these values
[value fulfillment] have to do with increasing the
Session 857, Page 243 "You expect your motives to quality of whatever life the being feels at its center.
be selfish because you have been told that they are, The quality of that life is not simply to be handed
and so when you catch yourselves with unkind down or experienced, for example, but is to be
motives you are almost comforted, because you creatively added to, multiplied, in a way that has
think that at least you are behaving normally. nothing to do with quantity.
Session 857, Page 244 "It may seem that impulsive Session 863, Page 262 "Creativity is an in-built
actions run rampant in society, in cultish behavior, impetus in man, far more important than, say, what
for example, or in the behavior of criminals, or on science calls the satisfaction of basic needs. In those
the part of youth, but such activities show instead terms, creativity is the most basic need of all.
the power of impulses denied their natural
expression, intensified and focused on the one hand Session 863, Page 265 "Any scientist who believes
into highly ritualized patterns of behavior, and in that life has no meaning has simply provided
other areas denied expression. himself with what he thinks of as an unfailing
support against life s vicissitudes. If he says: Life
Session 857, Page 245 "To me, it is almost has no meaning, he cannot be disappointed if such
inconceivable that, from your position, any of you is the case, for he is ensconced in a self-created
seriously consider that the existence of your cocoon that has meaning, because it provides a
exquisite consciousness can possibly be the result of cushion against his deepest fears.
a conglomeration of chemicals and elements thrown
together by a universe accidentally formed, and Session 866, Page 269 "When a civilization does
soon to vanish. So much more evidence is available not support creativity it begins to falter. When it
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distrusts its gifted people, rather than encouraging breathe quietly, and remind yourself that you are an
them, a nation is at least in trouble. Your integral part of the universe. Allow yourself to feel
psychologies, stressing the norm, made people a sense of belonging with nature. Such an exercise
frightened of their individual characteristics and can often relieve a headache in no time.
abilities, because psychology s norm did not fit the
contours of any one human being. It did not touch Session 870, Page 290 "Your impulses are your
the heights or the depths of human experience. closest communication with your inner self, because
People became frightened of their own in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings
individuality. toward action, rising from that deep inner
knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.
Session 866, Page 269 "Cancer, for example, has
become the symbol for the body s vulnerability, in Session 870, Page 291 "Your impulses are
current years -the proof of man s susceptibility to immersed in the quality called faith, for they urge
the body. It is a disease that people have when they you into action in the faith [that] the moment for
want to die -when they are ashamed to admit that action exists. Your beliefs must interact with your
they want to die, because death seems to fly against impulses, however, and often they can erode that
sane behavior. If the species struggles to survive, great natural beneficial spontaneity that impulses
then how can individuals want to die?" can provide. When I speak of impulses, many of
you will automatically think of impulses that appear
Session 866, Page 272 "People cannot admit that contradictory or dangerous or evil -and that is
they want to die at certain times. If they could because you are so convinced of the basic
accept the fact of their own wishes, some could unworthiness of your being. You have every right to
even change their minds. Many do: The question your impulses, to choose among them, to
psychological condition changes for the better, and assess them, but you must be aware of them,
the body cells are no longer amiable to the acknowledge their existence, for they will lead you
cancerous condition. to your own true nature.
Session 866, Page 273 "If you want to be a true Session 870, Page 291 "Natural attributes show
practicing idealist, then each step that you take themselves quite clearly in early childhood, for
along the way must be worthy of your goal. example, when you are allowed greater freedom to
do what you want to do. As children, some people
Session 868, Page 283 "To a large measure, the love to work with words, some with images, some
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