People don't grow--they just change clothes. To grow one must be committed unconditionally to the ideal, so that one's self is never truly possessed but in its pursuit. Which entails an implicit apostasy from the religion of the given, the immediate, the apparent--yea, from the very idea of self-possession--so that what one deeply is cannot be grasped in what one has inherited.
We become, for being hides in potentiality, revealing itself only in retrospect.
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