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His own great joy in the glimpse is natural and inevitable, but if he clings to it to the point where it is succeeded by great disappointment when the glimpse disappears, then it is merely another mood of the personal ego. In that case he will certainly be left feeling empty when it leaves him, and he probably will be troubled by the thought that something has gone wrong.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 7 : After the Glimpse > # 46