As an emotional person, you are caught between the horns of suppression and expression. People play on your weakness (your need for that emotion) and make you do things for which you are later sorry; or they force you to suppress yourself until you become sick and confused.

Out of desperation you may join the “Let your hair down and get it off your chest” club. So what one wicked person motivates you to feel, another fiend helps you to do, and yet another “forgives.”

You surely made the classic ego mistake of fighting faults and emotion with emotion, but it is like fighting fire with fire. And you felt upset and defeated. you wanted sympathy—more of that emotional “security.”

As you grow more aware the sensation-comfort crowd will hone in to make lots of noise to try to distract you to prevent you from becoming aware so you can leave them behind and set a healthy but painful example to them.

Lo and behold! All of a sudden you may get the sympathy or glory you have been craving. To try to make you doubt your new outlook, they will show “concern” with your sanity and devote themselves full time to your “salvation” and cure.

"God’s grace will shatter the hypnotic spell of environmental conditioning for you"

They will go to great lengths to “rescue” you: introduce you to new friends, music, medicine, dope, all kinds of scientific or philosophical or religious hogwash, and even bother you at all hours of the night.

When you see these signs, you can be sure that you have found something that frightens them. You must not heed their advice! Listen instead to yourself. Hold fast! Meditate for strength and soon you will be less sensitive to those appeals.

God’s grace will shatter the hypnotic spell of environmental conditioning for you. Once the spell is broken, your rotten corrupt self begins to boil away and your true self emerges to stand as a witness to God’s grace.

People are consciously asleep—it takes an aware person to awaken them. They all hide behind the “nobody is perfect” routine and can get away with their illusions fairly well until they meet someone who is really awake (conscious).

As you become more aware, you make other people self-conscious. Probably your therapist will be the most threatened—but hold fast! You might even save him.