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Few Westerners want to travel in quest of Oriental wisdom, although many will travel as tourists. It requires a special avocation to go as a pilgrim to Asia and settle down there with a spiritual teacher in order to find one's own soul. It is indeed an evidence in favour of belief in reincarnation that a number of foreigners feel a compulsive necessity to do so, even though few are able to manipulate their circumstances toward this end.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 121