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Look for the results of spiritual attainment in character and conduct. If a man has lived his whole life in a yogic ashram but is still mean, petty, treacherous, spiteful, unjust, and unreliable, be sure that all his religious devotions and meditation exercises have only affected his surfaces, not his depths.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 94