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Systems of discipline may weaken the ego, may tether it to some code or ideal, may bring it under some sort of control; but they do not bring about any root change in the man who is still himself controlled by the same old master, the same old ego. These systems may even suppress the self for a time, but that is not the same, nor can it give the same lasting result, as clearly facing the self and penetrating it by the understanding of insight.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 5 : Detaching from The Ego (Part 2) > # 389