Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
Jonas SalkNow, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.
Jonas SalkI couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.
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