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There is certainly no bar to the highest spiritual attainment through marriage. If the greatest sages of the past have been single (or have lived as single men) this was not because marriage would have interfered with sagehood--for it cannot do so--but because they wanted to keep the external life as free as they could in order to carry out their work as fully and as freely as possible.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 445