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To get this strength and gain this wisdom, he must paradoxically follow two opposed courses. First, he must retire wholly from all activities every day and contemplate them analytically as well as impersonally. Second, he must plunge into and use those activities as springboards whence to rise to higher levels. Hence, it is said that neither meditation nor action is enough. Both are necessary to him and to one another. The first inspires and aspires, the second expresses and tests.

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practices Involved > Chapter 5 : Balance the Psyche > # 166