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With the years--the world being what it is and human beings what they are--experience often turns this idealism of the young into the disillusionment of the middle-aged or the cynicism of the old. Only a coming into awareness of the higher spiritual nature can balance and correct this condition with the higher truth of the World-Idea, thus renewing hope and giving peace.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 185