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There are two different ways of being detached: the ascetic's, which dissociates itself from the world and tries to live outside the world's activities; and the philosopher's, which accepts those activities but not the dependence which usually comes with them.

-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 3 : Practise Detachment > # 3