Remember this

Remember this: development that stays with you in the spiritual realm is not about holding a lot of surfacy knowledge in your mind at the same time. It is about developing your essential self. Your essence. It's kind of beyond words and ideas and so forth in this sense, though influences are carried in such ways.

So, for instance, just reading the Bible complete does more for you in real development. Reading Homer complete. Deep languages. Learning music. Athletic development. But also if you identify spiritual warfare and the knowledge associated with it as most important then having the *language* of the Bible in you complete is more real for development than reading twelve commentaries on a particular book of the Bible. Obviously. Also, with Work, seeing just one feature of false personality in real time in yourself and managing to have some real degree of control over it does more than going through the mental gymnastics of figuring out time and recurrence and so forth in that purely surfacy knowledge way. Obviously.

Pure and simple clock and real will efforts at rote, backlash, schedule, and event self-remembering and non-identifying do more than you can see or feel at the time of doing it. Development for these kinds of deeper efforts is like the slow hand of a clock: no visible movement, yet movement.