Gradually awakened...

"One cannot start running at full speed;
one must gather momentum
and gradually increase the speed.

If one is to be stained with a spiritual color,
one must be stained gradually.
The color takes time to penetrate
for it to become deep and rich –
it must be applied gradually.

The mind which has been sleeping
the sleep of ignorance for ages
can only gradually be awakened to Knowledge."


Kabir
Translated by Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba_
Myrtle Beach, SC: Manifestation, 1st ed., v. 6., p. 2086-7
Revised Online Edition, p. 1772