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He has become scared. The norm has become nonachievement, physically speaking. In the meantime the body is improving. Coming up the stairs the day before yesterday, he proved this to himself. He is, as you are, modest in a way, reticent. He does not want to show weakness. The stairs seem public. All he needs to know, however, and he is nearly there, is that the body is not restrained by past beliefs. Three weeks will see a literally spectacular change, for he is holding himself back to some extent until he feels you are free to move.

[...] Such persons often find it extremely difficult to express love, joy, or gratitude, for example, and this lack of expression is taken for granted by others, who do not see it in its true light, but think instead that the person is simply reticent.

[...] A turned-in reticence.

(“You’re a good kiddo,” was the ultimate compliment that Jane’s very reticent grandfather could pay her. [...]

(10:40.) They have done you one important service that should not be overlooked: they understood you to be reticent. [...]

[...] And Joseph, oh dear Joseph, I would even now, but for your natural reticence, really speak out.