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It is as if no one existed but these two--the listening mind and the soundless voice. This is real solitude; this is the true cloister to which a man may retire in order to find God; this is the desert, cave, or mountain where, mentally, he renounces the world's business and abandons friends, family, and all humanity.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 2 : Inspiration > # 131