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To withdraw from the community of worldly society into the community of monastic society, or into the solitude of one's own society, may be an act of progress or an act of retrogression. But to most men at some time it is, for a limited period, an act of necessity if they are to find themselves.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 87