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Successful ascenders often wish that they could start all over.
P.296 - §1 For the successful pilgrims on the second circuit the
stimulus of evolutionary uncertainty is over, but the adventure of the
eternal assignment has not yet begun; and while the sojourn on this circle
is wholly pleasurable and highly profitable, it lacks some of the anticipative
enthusiasm of the former circles. Many are the pilgrims who, at such a
time, look back upon the long, long struggle with a joyous envy, really
wishing they might somehow go back to the worlds of time and begin it
all over again, just as you mortals, in approaching advanced age, sometimes
look back over the struggles of youth and early life and truly wish you
might live your lives over once again. |