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It is true that personal contact with the world brings salutary instruction and enforced facing of facts. It is also true that deliberately to ensconce oneself in an ashram or monastery brings another kind of equally needed instruction and other kinds of facts to be regarded.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 91