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We Westerners are too hardheaded to be satisfied with the metaphysical approach which satisfies many Easterners. We want to coordinate a spiritual way with the life that is around us, with the need for providing for a home, a family, a business, that willy-nilly is our duty. The search for philosophic ultimates frankly bores us because we cannot relate them to the work that we have to do in offices, in factories, in shops, on farms, or to the difficulties in marriage. Orientals should not despise our attitude but rather should try to comprehend it.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 90