These discoveries are thought provoking, to say the least, but they sometimes open the door to new activities and new achievements that were impossible when you were under the spell of the old dreams. Carried free of the old conflicts and confusions of trying to make it, and carried out into the clear water of self-knowledge and service, many people find at last what they were meant to do and to be. Gandhi discovered at fifty his real mission in nonviolent resistance. Cervantes was older than that when he began his career as a novelist. Lou Andreas-Salomé was in her sixties when she became a
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