Initial breakthroughs

Initial breakthroughs
When all steps are huge
And when going from one
To two or four to eight
Is actually doubling
One hundred percent
Or one to three to nine
In reality is then tripling
Such sweet beginnings
First steps of growing
Tens to over hundred
Triggered so clearly
By conscious push
Or pull — whatever
Grasping patterns
And insights applied
Found by experience
Beyond any thresholds
To become more visible
Offered with given tools
From an overabundance
Definitely way too much
For most human scopes
But with any proper tool
All this can be handled
And brought forward
Into a global village
Spread out farther
By its potential.

“Cherry blossom dragon” — spring awakening

Father Giovanni about initial breakthroughs

“Faith cannot be given to man. Faith arises in a man and increases in its action in him not as the result of automatic learning, that is, not from any automatic ascertainment of height, breadth, thickness, form and weight, or from the perception of anything by sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste, but from understanding.
“Understanding is the essence obtained from information intentionally learned and from all kinds of experiences personally experienced.
“For example, if my own beloved brother were to come to me here at this moment and urgently entreat me to give him merely a tenth part of my understanding, and if I myself wished with my whole being to do so, yet I could not, in spite of my most ardent desire, give him even the thousandth part of this understanding as he has neither the knowledge nor the experience which I have quite accidentally acquired and lived through in my life.
“No…, it is a hundred times easier, as it is said in the Gospels, ‘for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle’ than for anyone to give to another the understanding formed in him about anything whatsoever.”

— Meetings With Remarkable Men, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, p. 240

Initial breakthroughs of spring fully awakened