You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.
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Another assumption is labelled “regression”, and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.
