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Most aspirants have to go through a period of withdrawal in order to devote some time to study and meditation. However, if they are to benefit from it, and not become idle dreamers, they must not commit the error of doing what is right at the wrong time. There is a definite time to attend to outer affairs and another, different time to withdraw from them. The two approaches can and should occur at certain periods of the same individual's life, at different times. Only fanatical extremists, or those who are utterly one-sided, say that we should live for ambition alone or for renunciation alone. Philosophy does not limit itself to such narrow attitudes.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 1 : Take Intermittent Pauses > # 190