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I will be the most deferential of men before the teaching and in the presence of a truly illumined man. But I will stubbornly resist, and stand firm on my ground, when I am asked to surrender my intellectual freedom and become his bonded disciple, open no longer to the teaching or influence of any other man.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 295