Understanding comes in flashes - like a phase shift, where ice absorbs energy and doesn't change, but when enough energy is absorbed, it suddenly flows as water.

Likewise, sometimes you read a paragraph three times and comprehend nothing. You read the words, hear them in your mind, but at the end you have no idea what you just read. But on the fourth try, it clicks. The energy you expended on the first three tries unlocks a phase shift on the fourth try, and the new understanding is added to your overall matrix.

Furthermore, the same phenomenon is going on during meditation or prayer - the two are opposites in a way, but both are internal work. The phase change doesn't occur on the first try.

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