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The monastery, the nunnery, and the ashram may be helpful to begin spiritual progress but they will not prove so helpful to advance or complete it. That can best be done in the world outside, where alone moral virtue or mystical attainment can be thoroughly tested down to their last foundations.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 137