“You were perfectly happy before you met anybody, but your perfect happiness didn’t include having any fun. There was no randomness at all, and that was that. So, what you did was trade in your ticket to total serenity from here on out for a little companionship. …
“Stresses or lack of them, balances or imbalances add up to unhappy people. Well all right, if these people are all unhappy, and they want to be some other way, it’s mostly because they have lost their power of choice over their own existence. …
“Almost any auditor by reading a book carelessly and working with somebody for a short time could achieve some part of this, you see. He’d at least get somebody to hold his own, feel that there was some security there, particularly if he didn’t make him face into anything really tough!”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Skills of Clearing delivered on 18 October 1958. This can be found in the London Clearing Congress lectures. Track 12.
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