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Those earlier books were written not so much to convince others as to show the very real need of a contemplative life to be brought in to counterbalance the active one, not to lead people into monasteries and ashrams for the remainder of their lives as world-renunciates, but to lead them into themselves.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 2 : Philosophy and Contemporary Culture > # 116