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The spiritual guide who asks his disciples to practise self-discipline and remodel their characters, will seem to them to be offering impossible counsels of perfection unless he himself is willing to do or has already done what he asks. However sound his theoretical guidance may be, it will fail in persuasive power to the extent that it is not at one with his own experience.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 385