"You want to acquire gifts. Set to work and try to develop lucidity. The latter is no gift but a universal possibility common to all. As Luke Burke puts it "idiots and dogs have it, and to a more remarkable degree often than the most intellectual man. It is because neither idiots nor dogs use their reasoning faculties but allow their natural instinctive perceptions to have full play."
January 1, 1970
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