The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
The march of the human mind is slow.
If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They bring an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're looking at every flower twitching, wondering if it's just the breeze or some magical pulse.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
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