Failure

Long Quotes

"Every failure started out as a good idea—something that would lead in a preferred direction, something that would further a personal cause. Let your failures in life, then, disillusion you and sober you, temper you and open your eyes. Accept your failures. Call them failures. They are failures. Let them renew you. Let them clear your vision. Let them free you from future failure. Let them give you discernment. Let them teach you discretion. Let them take you back to truth, which is what you needed to begin with."

• GCS, p. 89

In learning the Way of Knowledge

Potential pitfalls

ambition

impatience

unwillingness to learn

unwillingness to fit oneself into appropriate placement

misguided associations ("the wrong people in the wrong ways")

attempt to use rather than be used by the truth

lack of discernment

indiscretion

grandiose imaginations about one's role or abilities

• GCS, pp. 76-77

Metaphors

"The one who is taking the real steps to Knowledge and is learning them correctly will pass you by. And you will become broken down by the side of the road, unable to participate and unable to move forward."

• GCS, p. 77