Let the Will beware every quick victory over Circumstance. This is not flight, what you see.  His arrows only need distance.

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Often we can identify our ignorance of self through cautious engagement with some part of our world to which we are highly sensitive.  It can provide in our responses the contours of the hidden subject, like clay pressed onto a veil and over some object behind it. The education of self requires a nearly impossible type of courage -- the courage to experience humiliation. It is however the most profitable form of courage to turn a weak spot into strength just by finding it.

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Positive thinking too often prefers the stimulus in positive grammar to the outcome of accurate thinking.

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