“One is alive to the degree that individuals have granted him beingness and that he has granted others beingness. He is alive as a group to that degree. But he is really as alive as he himself is perfectly willing to grant beingness, can grant beingness and is willing to have others grant beingness. …
“The main beingness that bites him is that which he granted, but that’s no reason not to grant beingness. So? That merely makes it so that one has a lot of drama. There’s no drama like the drama you get into, having granted beingness to something which then bites back.
“One cannot become able in life by fearing to live it. Never. And he can’t be himself without being willing to grant beingness, because he’s the only one that can grant beingness to himself.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Granting of Beingnessdelivered on 18 December 1953. This can be found in the 2nd American ACC lectures. Track 15.
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