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The aspirant who believes that he can come to a master for a few days or weeks and glean the teaching will glean only a sample of it. It will take him all his life not only to receive what a master knows but to be adjudged worthy of and ready for it. If he lacks this patience and humility, he will fall into self-deception.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 617