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The glimpse becomes the creative source, the inspirer, of his intellectual or aesthetic pursuits--if he is an artist or writer--or of his moral aspirations and conduct if he is not. First there is the turning-within and opening to that which is his finest being; then there is the reversal of direction, the turning-without and giving or serving his small or large world. This humanistic way is a grace for those whom it touches.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 2 : Inspiration > # 21