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He cannot bring this enlightenment into being--much less into permanent being--by his own willpower. It can only come to him. But although striving for it may probably end in failure, the masses' indifference to it is worse. For whereas he will at least be open to recognize and accept it when it does happen to come, their doors of perception will be shut to it, or, bewildered and frightened, they will run away from it.

-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter 5 : Grace > # 143