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Something inside keeps him from being caught and swept along by the world's hasty ways, as he was formerly swept along. This controlling brake substitutes, instead, a regular deliberate slowness. Even if every task or affair or walk now takes longer, as it does, he knows that this leisurely rhythm is ordained for him, and that in the end nothing worthwhile will be lost by being obedient to it.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 3 : Relax Body, Breath, Mind > # 33