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Despite the example of Kriyananda, few works are created whole in a single burst of inspiration. The development of the fax machine began with a patent in 1843. The technology engaged Edison for a while and utilized the telegraph infrastructure for many years because AT&T, a monopoly, wasn’t interested. Widespread use of the fax couldn’t occur until deregulation of the telephone industry.²¹² The search to discover longitude spanned many years and engaged many seekers. Walt Whitman spent his period of creative maturity rewriting Leaves of Grass.

Edgar Cayce stresses “patience” as one of the three dimensions in which The Divine works: “Time, Space, Patience!” (262-114). Ghiselin says, “Among the conditions to which every inventor must submit is the necessity for patience. The development desired may have to be waited for, even though its character may be clearly intimated.”²¹³ When you’ve taken a break and received feedback, make the necessary adjustments and begin again—either on this project or on another. You may have to wait if the time is not yet right. The bikini was invented in 1946 but didn’t enter the mainstream until the freewheeling 1960s!²¹⁴