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The smugly complacent, the thoughtless surface-types, or those always immersed in pettinesses and trivialities will have no awareness of a higher need. But the others, relatively a few, will find it gnawing at their hearts and tensing their minds. The very condition which is so satisfactory to the larger group brings misery to the smaller one.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 199