Because time has passed them by, we assume that the choices we rejected or waived are now dead, and that there is no longer any potentiality in them. We have, on the other hand, many indications that projects which we planned but could not carry through at an early point in our life became ripe for fulfillment at a later time. As the author of The Cloud of Unknowing states it, “We grow by delays,” and for this reason the later expressions of our plans are often more productive and meaningful than they could possibly have been at the earlier time.
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We remain in the quietness with our eyes closed, now progressively feeling the presence of a person, a being who personifies the inner continuity of the life of our body. We feel the presence of the person within the process of our physical life, and we speak to it. We greet it as a person. We address it, saying what comes to us to be spoken. Whatever we say, we write in the Journal.
