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MR. O. How can I know?Q . May I ask a question about the Law of Accident and the law of fate?MR. O. I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. Well?Q . What shall we do to be saved?MR. O. Saved from what?Q . Being creatures of circumstance.MR. O. Much to think about. There is much to think of, but where tobegin, that is another question.Q . Can you help us to understand self-remembering more? The more Itry to understand it, the less I seem to.MR. O. No.Q . I want to be helped to know myself and to develop myself. That iswhy I am here.MR. O. Well, very good. Well?Q . Your ideas have shown me that there is nothing permanent withinme. I want to know where to start from.MR. O. To start? In what sense? I don't understand this idea ofstarting.MR. H . I know what I want from the contrast of mechanicalness, butfind it impossible to express it in words.[Mr. O. nodded.]Q . Is it possible to change a feeling of ill-will towards somebody into afeeling of kindness?MR. O. I don't know.Q . Mr. Ouspensky, I know that the ideas you gave me before the warhave been of the greatest value to me. I do not want to ask you for anymore information at the moment, because you gave me so much that Ihave not been able to see the tenth part of it. I would like to know,though, if conditions will be created for us now in which we cancontinue working in the same circumstances as we worked before thewar?MR. O. First I must learn teaching and then I will see what result of itwill be, and so on, and so on. I must have more material. You mustgive more material. Otherwise I cannot say anything.MISS W. If I make the necessary effort, can you teach me how to beginto understand myself?MR. O. I don't . . . [words not heard]. May come to something. Maycome to nothing.
Q . I find that the answers are even more interesting than the questions,so may we have them repeated in the same way so that we can hear them?MR. O. I will try. I am trying to do what I can. Well?Q . Sometimes I seem to know what I want, but it so quickly fadesaway. How can I make it more permanent?MR. O. Well, I can't explain better.MR. R. How can I deal with the enormous identification with everydaywork?MR. O. Necessary to understand words. Must not use words withoutexplanation. What means identification? So different in different cases.Q . I believe you said that we should have to give you more material.How shall we go about endeavouring to give you this material?[No answer.]Q . In your opinion, has this meeting so far been a success?MR. O. No, not yet. We may come to success.MRS. A . How can I learn to use emotion so that it really changes myinner state, instead of disappearing without leaving any trace?MR. O. What emotion?MRS. A . Understanding; and compassion; or understanding and sympathyfor people.MR. O. Needs time.Q . How can my pride, which seems to produce bad results, be of valuein growth?MR. O. I don't know.Q . I want the power of great understanding.MR. O. Very little you want!Q . If I do not know what to work from, can you tell me what to worktowards?MR. O. Yes. I don't know. I can't continue. [Miss Q. asked if sheshould repeat question.]Q . Will you please help us a little by giving a clue?MR. O. Which clue?Q . What you want us to talk about.MR. O. I would like you to continue to talk in the same way. Thenperhaps I will get something out of it.Q . Would you like to know what we have been trying to do while youhave been away?MR. O. Yes, certainly. Only one real thing.
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A record of some of the meetings he
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meaning, indicated by the smallest
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Thursday. August 20th 1931.MR. O. I
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MISS G. When you say someone still
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MR. W. For oneself?MR. O. Yes, but
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MRS. M. Can I put it another way?MR
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MR. M. But you must believe somethi
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MISS M. In reference to what you sa
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I know these ideas cannot be found
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Wednesday. January 16th 1935.Ray of
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they develop one from another. We t
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Wednesday. January 9th 1935. Thursd
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nearest to us is earth. All planets
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Thursday. January 24th 1935.It is a
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impressions above H48 are not a rul
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Thursday. February 28th 1935.MR. O.
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MR. R. May one use this system to u
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mystery about it, I want to give yo
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Q . Are we to only ask people who a
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exception of quite extreme cases, e
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view; at the same time, by studying
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line. This is the beginning of the
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Q . If there is no not-weakness, ho
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sophical schools. But ordinarily a
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think that man can reincarnate. Chr
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MR. R. About laws that we can be fr
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MR. H. Mr. O. said that we live bel
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MR. L. I notice that I am often irr
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take an analogy on a smaller scale.
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MR. O. I don't know. I have the rig
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MR. O. Maybe. We cannot take them a
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give up, there is no will. Another
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it is only influences D. But you ca
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MR. O. Certainly quite different. T
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MRS. H. Doesn't a real change of at
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MRS. W. You spoke of the dangers of
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MR. O. You can work to come into co
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get rid of these unpleasant emotion
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our own weaknesses, and if we know
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MR. O. Truth exists without us, but
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MR. C. Does inner octave mean that
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(our ray). We take only the Absolut
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MR. O. I don't know. Many things ca
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Thursday. March 19th 1936.MISS C. I
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MR. L. What is evil? .MR. O. What i
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that he wanted to go to Italy on a
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MR. O. That is not the reason. Even
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not the purely conventional evil, b
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speaking, if you mean instinctive c
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You cannot begin with 'doing'. Even
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Question about triads.MR. O. ... Wi
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***MR. D. A question about art.MR.
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We will represent the Absolute by a
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MR. N. But there are still mechanic
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MR. O. It means the general weakeni
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looks so difficult when it is expla
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eader will never be able to find th
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This shows the beginning of a view
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MR. D. Could such facts as these be
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certain rules and conditions. If on
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On the technical side the formation
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MR. O. This is a subject for conver
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MR. O. At present we cannot do much
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MISS W. I feel that we don't rememb
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MR. O. About St. Paul it is necessa
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can help, but it cannot, by itself,
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talks be necessary, why is school n
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MR. C. It is difficult to see wheth
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MRS. A . I understood Mr. O. to say
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MR. O. You mean unsuccessful?MR. P
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Monday. October 18th 1937.MR. O. Tr
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this, or the same, and also others.
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Thursday. October 28th 1937.[Descri
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understand the necessity of objecti
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MR. O. No, he is taking no responsi
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comes to us through so many transla
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the same way which leads to objecti
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the beginning. Something happens—
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How does one accept that in our wor
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Thursday. January 6th 1938. (Warwic
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also determines action. But if you
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MR. O. There are many laws. Certain
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We can pass differently the time in
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Thursday. January 13th 1938. (Warwi
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opposites—splendour and misery, d
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MRS. D. Can criminal energy be used
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MRS. F. Should one try to direct en
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MR. O I meant if you do not identif
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Monday. January 17th 1938.MR. O. In
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this activity, try to see all that
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Thursday. January 20th 1938. (Warwi
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MR. F. What is the significance oth
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what size is the picture, what is t
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part of emotional centre. How does
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do it. Like if you have to make the
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MR. A . What is the fundamental con
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think they can; they will describe
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work, the answer is best revealed w
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terms It is, however, possible to b
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normal sleep, but you cannot lose m
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one definition. First each must be
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We understand differences of object
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MR. A . As soon as a man throws him
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ordinary state, we cannot speak exc
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igger scale, you know. We are not t
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Thursday. February 3rd 1938. (Warwi
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the problem, not change your action
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Killing a man, does that belong to
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incomplete development which does n
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not principle. We can distinguish m
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MR O. How can I explain? Many thing
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MR. S. Does self-remembering help o
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Does a destructive action start wit
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MR. O. We may talk about scales lat
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who call themselves Yogis—some ju
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MR. O. Certainly different types co
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MR. O. In the sense of expanding, d
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MR. A . I have never detected any l
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Tuesday. March 1st 1938. (Warwick G
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three notes of a cosmic octave What
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example, an advertisement) or I ove
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only requires initial effort to beg
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MISS B If you sit down and try to t
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MR. O. At the same time, they are d
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MR. O. We do not speak about oursel
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y thought? For example, if I am thi
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of accumulation is very complicated
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You must understand that I would li
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Thursday. March 17th 1938. (Warwick
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MR. J. Did Mr. O. say last time tha
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MR. P . Does not power to invent th
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[Questions from Thursday, March 9th
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MR. O. It is too difficult to speak
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MR O Here again, all I can say is t
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late results and eliminate wrong ac
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Again, if you ask this question in
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MR. O. No, no. I do not know where
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MR. H. How much is known about the
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MR. R. There are certain religious
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MR. M. But did not you yourself con
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MR. O. Yes. That was from the ordin
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School cannot be mechanical, so it
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MR. O. They eat different worms.MRS
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and the result of outside stimuli,
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een a negative emotion, for how cou
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talking about coming to lectures an
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five-dimensional world, and the que
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instance, its curvature, the three
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will not be good either. There is n
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it is and suppose they were made li
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natural laws from ordinary deductio
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we cannot use conscience, cannot fe
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certain extent, but not sufficientl
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whereas the influence on masses of
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strength. Then after some time agai
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MISS L. Does emotional centre take
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MR. O. It depends on the octave aga
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work will help another. You have oc
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MR. O. In asking a question like th
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incompatible with the one you want
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can never control two or three cent
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MISS R. Is the desire to dress well
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doesn't care for knowledge—in any
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MR. C. Is such an inequality, if pr
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Perhaps it is possible to explain w
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organization. This formulation abou
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was simply your imagination that di
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it meets all sorts of matters, whic
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MR. O. That shows shocks. One produ
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MR. O. I will say when we come to t
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MR. O. I don't follow.MISS C. It se
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MR. M. Is there a chemical change w
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MR. O. No, it means simply some con
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MR H I have been arriving at my off
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quite personal; there are not two p
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an action happen, or are the three
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all organic life, then certainly ma
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Monday. July 25th 1938. (Warwick Ga
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Accident'. I can see 'cause and eff
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takes place. It is not only actual
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way, you will have to explain to ne
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or wrong or not belonging to it, an
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MR. O. For many reasons. It is diff
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MR. H. What part does the negative
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I am persuaded that there is someth
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MISS M . I ask these questions beca
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MR D . Is there a danger of negativ
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M R . J . What did you mean by 'mec
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personality If one fails it is beca
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only make us more blind, but which,
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Tuesday. October 18th 1938.[Written
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ut they bring other people, and tho
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MR. O. Just individually.Q . I mean
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there were certain moments when the
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MR. O That is only a metaphor.MR. W
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y your own self. But there is no di
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mean that from the point of view of
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Incomplete record. [?] End of Janua
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thinking. Considering is a useless
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MR. M. Am I right in thinking that
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MR. O. No, there is nothing to worr
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theories. Then only when we come to
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The sun is one of the suns of the M
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all on the same level, but they mus
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Sunday. October 15th 1939. (Lyne.)M
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understand the situation. You can d
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work, school-work. Certainly it was
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of things by studying questions lik
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same errors, the same states, quite
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these features. They play a certain
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lunacy in ourselves, and the creati
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itself. It also seems that I am mor
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never seem to have enough material
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MR. O. Well, try; if you have somet
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avoid it and you will see exactly t
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proper uses of formatory apparatus
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MR E It is possible, isn't it, to h
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Next time I will try and come at th
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Tuesday. June 10th 1941. (New York.
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MRS. D. Is that 48 in the brain? [R
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MRS. D. What do you mean by a schoo
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Wednesday. June 11th 1941. (New Yor
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MR. O. Certainly, yes.MRS. C. What
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MR. O. Yes, but one cannot find tru
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Thursday. June 19th 1941. (New York
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MR. N. You can't relate it to the o
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Tuesday. June 24th 1941. (New York.
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MR. O. I don't know. I can speak on
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MR. O. Yes, no question about that.
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it doesn't happen all at once. Afte
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MISS Q . Is the power of mental tel
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MRS. P. Does the energy that comes
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Thursday. July l0th 1941. (New York
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MRS. B. Do you do all three at the
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Friday. July 11th 1941. (New York.)
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deception in imagination. Many lazy
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MR. F. But didn't you say, sir, tha
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MR. O. Oh, many other things. First
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is like another brain and quick—v
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Thursday. July 17th 1941. (New York
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MR. O. There are two forms of wrong
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Tuesday. July 22nd 1941. (New York.
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Wednesday. July 23rd 1941. (New Yor
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MR. O. I merely based it on the exa
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Thursday. July 24th 1941. (New York
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Tuesday. July 29th 1941. (New York.
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MR. B. Why do centres interfere wit
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Tuesday. August 5th 1941. (New York
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MR. S. Trying to think of yourself,
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MR. O. Try to look at it from the p
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MRS. F. How can one send help ahead
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the cause and reason for it through
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thought most people were dead, but
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MR. O. We speak about schools which
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MRS. P. Have we the right to assume
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MR. O. Maybe, in a small way. But i
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Only when one comes under school in
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Wednesday. August 4th 1943. (New Yo
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MR. H. Is it possible to make a liv
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MRS. T. In the example you describe
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MISS O It has no relation to what o
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MR C Is it possible to stimulate co
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shock is necessary for further refi
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MR. B. It is possible to observe an
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Page 551 and 552: MISS R. But if one could, would it
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Page 557 and 558: MR. O. When you try to remember you
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Page 561 and 562: certain proficiency in the control
Page 563 and 564: MR. O. I think everyone can have as
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Page 573 and 574: friend who came to meet me at the G
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Page 583 and 584: But this changes all ideas of recur
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Page 587 and 588: MR. O. NO.Q . Why are we here?MR. O
Page 589 and 590: MR. M. May I explain?MR. O. [to Mis
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Page 595 and 596: MR. O. Yes. Why not? You may . . .
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Page 599 and 600: MR. O. Well, who could say that?MIS
Page 601 and 602: MR. H. Is a realization of where we
Page 603 and 604: MR. O. [to Miss Q.] Well, do you un
Page 605 and 606: MISS Q. NO.MR. O. Then you remember
Page 607 and 608: MR. R. By trying and trying, one ca
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Page 613 and 614: MR. O. For some people.MRS. U. Is i
Page 615 and 616: MISS I. Have there been any real qu
Page 617 and 618: MR. O. Maybe, maybe not. I don't se
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Page 621 and 622: MR. O. You must try.MRS. F. How can
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Page 625 and 626: MR. O. I can only envy this man or
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Page 631 and 632: MR. O. Well, you have to do somethi
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Page 635 and 636: MR. O. When you remember? Quite rig
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