“Little by little, here and there, every word that you utter, if it points in the direction of freedom and does not point in the direction of damnation, spreads and multiplies and goes and grows.
“It’s a very funny thing which only an artist can truly understand: to do without the ultimate effect of your words. The artist who writes a story and then never hears the applause of his readers. The movie actor who stands in front of the camera and never hears the audience’s roar in answer to his performance which he has just turned in, but has only had the cameraman and assistant director and a couple of snide script girls watching him. Nobody gave him applause.
“And so do you seldom hear applause or hear the ultimate effect of the words which you utter, but these things continue to go like ripples in a pond of infinite size and they continue to go. And just because you never see them come back is no reason they have not gone somewhere.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Principal Difference Between Dianetics & Scientology delivered on 27 October 1954. This can be found in the LRH Classics lectures. Track 13.
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