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Some come to this through the joy enkindled by great music, inspired writing, or majestic landscape, or through response to beauty; but others--and they are more--come through being wrecked or crushed, threatened with destruction, left hopeless, forlorn, and helpless. They reach the end of their strength, or discover the falseness and futility of their wisdom.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 237