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If one man thinks he can get along better alone, he is quite entitled to his view and it may be that his quest requires it. But if another man thinks otherwise and seeks the companionship of marriage, he too must be granted the right to follow his particular expression of the quest. Neither one is an absolute. The married man is not in any way relieved of his responsibility to seek and find physical control, just as the celibate man is not relieved of responsibility for mental control. Nor does this apply only to aspirants. The same liberty must also be granted even more--and not less, as so many misinstructed beginners believe--to men of attainment, masters, and all who have finished their quest.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 442