{"id":5684,"date":"2026-08-08T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:17:22","slug":"staying-with-the-process-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/08\/08\/staying-with-the-process-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying with the Process, over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Reason wondered about how to find <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/08\/08\/reason-starts-to-analyze-the-purgation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the fastest and easiest way<\/a> through the healing and repair of superbia, the beginning of the answer comes from an unclear place:<\/p>\n<p><em>ma fu detto: \u00abA man destra per la riva\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>con noi venite, e troverete il passo\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>possibile a salir persona viva.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roughly: <em>&#8220;But it was said: &#8216;On the right hand along the bank, come with us, and you will find the step where it is possible for a living person to ascend'&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In many ways a calming and stabilizing response: do not try to rush this process, nor forget it completely. Stay with it, support it, &#8220;clean the distortions&#8221; away through reflection and contemplation, and you will reach the end of it. The fullness of the repair and transformation will come eventually. But it takes time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Dante comes back to this idea several times in the Comedy. The spiritual path is a journey that unfolds in its own pace often. Once entered, do not rush it. Do the daily bread, and enjoy the journey and growth, in peace and in beauty. And then, the ascent will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Reason wondered about how to find the fastest and easiest way through the healing and repair of superbia, the beginning of the answer comes from an unclear place: ma fu detto: \u00abA man destra per la riva\u00a0 con noi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/08\/08\/staying-with-the-process-over-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}