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Even when he withdraws from the world and gives up its work and rewards, its activities and pleasures, it is the ego which leaves them and the ego which hopes to gain something as a result. Whatever he accomplishes will in the end still be inside its enclosure, however "spiritual" a form it assumes.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 143