Seth Quote: You cannot help yourself and you cannot help your species by identifying with your own weakness, or with the weakness of your species. When you are safe you are safe, and you are in a position of strength, and you can be in a position of tranquility. Then you have the energy and exuberance to think and feel clearly, and to help others. When you are in a position of safety, you do not help by pretending that you are not safe, or by taking upon yourself the agony of others. Your reality, when you are safe, is a reality of safety. From that framework you have strength, validity, grace, exuberance, additional energy that you can send out to touch the hearts and realities of other people. If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own; if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position, and you weaken the position of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers. The tragedies of the newspapers are symbols. Those symbols represent real tragedies, but those tragedies do not exist n your moment unless you are participating in them. Those who are involved in such tragedies feel a sense of hopelessness and the loss of power in the present, and you do not help them by taking on the guise of hopelessness. You must operate from strength, not from weakness. When you stand on a firm shore, you can extend your arm to the man that is in quicksand. You cannot help him by leaping into the quicksand with him, for surely both of you will go down and he will not thank you. Class session - Friday, April 8th, 1977
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