Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2593

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2593. Nothing can be learned without reflection

When reflection is absent, nothing comes into the memory, as is quite obvious. Even if the human sight is surrounded by thousands and thousands of objects, one nevertheless retains none of them in the memory on which one had not bestowed outward reflection. Likewise, when people are thinking something on which they had reflected, this they retain in the memory. In short, without reflection nothing resides in a person.


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