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There is a point which many persons have come to in a large percentage of the several hundred cases which were observed during the years when I investigated such matters--collecting the data from which, together with my own experience and lastly combined with the more authoritative teachings of highly attained and highly respected top-rank persons, conclusions could be drawn that the initial glimpse may have been the first and last for a long period of many years--when they feel too preoccupied with the work of starting to build a career to earn their livelihood and with the distractions of starting to build a family. But in some cases they stay in this period of disinterest because of disillusionments.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 4 : Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 141