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It is a failing of many an intense devotee that he loses his sense of proportion. In frequent flushes of egoistic emotionalism he may, for instance, often ascribe most events--however petty--in his personal life to divine interference or magical manipulation or supernatural intervention.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 37