-------------SETH SPEAKS------------------
In their way the hateful or revengeful thoughts
are natural therapeutic devices, for if you follow
them, accepting them with their own validity as feelings, they will automatically lead you beyond themselves;
they will change into other feelings, carrying you from
they will change into other feelings, carrying you from
hatred into ... fear - which is always behind hatred.
(1 1;220-22 1) 2.
Regardless of what you have been told, hatred
does not initiate strong violence... The outbreak of violence is often the result of a built-in sense of powerlessness. (21;418) 3.
There are adults who quail when one of their children say, "I hate you'. Often children quickly learn
not to be honest. What the child is really saying is....
“I love you so. Why are you so mean to me?' or 'What
stands between us and the love for you
that I feel?' (21;423)4.
You become conditioned so that you -feel guilty-
when you even contemplate hating another. You try to
hide such thoughts from yourself. You may succeed so
when you even contemplate hating another. You try to
hide such thoughts from yourself. You may succeed so
well that you literally do not know what you are feeling
on a conscious level. The emotions are there but they
are ----invisible to you---- because you are afraid to
look. To that extent you are divorced from your own
reality and disconnected from your own feelings of love.
(21;424)
look. To that extent you are divorced from your own
reality and disconnected from your own feelings of love.
(21;424)
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-------------Dwell into 1984----------------
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts
wander when you were in any public place or within
range of a telescreen.
The smallest thing could give you away....
A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit
of muttering to yourself–anything that carried with it
the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to
hide.
In any case, to wear an improper expression on your
face (to look incredulous when a victory was
announced, for example) was itself a ........punishable offense.
There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called..............
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