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Inhibition or blockage , as in the case of reading disabilities , may appear when
there is a profound emotional incapacity to give the mind to the material at all .
Conversely , we should expect that a positive love of certain stimulus materials ...
Inhibition or blockage , as in the case of reading disabilities , may appear when
there is a profound emotional incapacity to give the mind to the material at all .
Conversely , we should expect that a positive love of certain stimulus materials ...
Page 125
There is no easily definable limit to the depth to which the individual may
immerse himself in material which he loves , no limit to the power of the mind to
saturate itself with that which satisfies it . This is no plea against the recognition of
...
There is no easily definable limit to the depth to which the individual may
immerse himself in material which he loves , no limit to the power of the mind to
saturate itself with that which satisfies it . This is no plea against the recognition of
...
Page 126
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage — to
remain curious , open , unsatiated in all its relations with nature — is tenfold more
difficult than the cultivation of a stable , satisfying point of view , but a
thousandfold ...
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage — to
remain curious , open , unsatiated in all its relations with nature — is tenfold more
difficult than the cultivation of a stable , satisfying point of view , but a
thousandfold ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
OF CULTURE | 47 |
The Freeing of Intelligence | 113 |
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