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During my travels, I have watched so many aspirants make so many unavailing attempts to gain this higher awareness that I would have been unobservant indeed if I had not drawn the lesson. This was that those who were most easily discouraged and disheartened, failing to try out new roads or to persevere in the old one, were too frequently those who sank into the apathy of accepted failure.

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practices Involved > Chapter 2 : The Measure of Progress > # 20