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Who is willing to sacrifice his worldly interests for the sake of coming closer to the intangible Overself? Who is willing to deviate from the conventional path of mere sensuality and narrow selfishness for the sake of a mysterious intuition which bids him obey and trust it implicitly? The answer to these questions is that only a scattered minority is willing to do so, and one small enough to show up humanity's actual state as being inwardly far from knowing why it is here on earth.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 157