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Most beginners feel uncertain of themselves in these highly unfamiliar mental, emotional, and psychic surroundings. So they join a smug self-centered group, a cult, an organization. This gives them the feeling of gregarious support. They are no longer alone. They lack the courage to be alone.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 4 : Those Who Seek > # 56