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To say that the inner activity of mystical life is quite compatible with the outer activity of worldly life is to deceive oneself. The mystic may--and in these times usually must--come to terms with the world, but it is not his inner guidance that bids him arrive at this compromise. It is outer compulsion that bids him do so.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 1 : Toward Defining Philosophy > # 430