A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.
P.D. Ouspenskya man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
P.D. OuspenskyI mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another
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