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To be always among other human beings, be they in a city or a village, is suffocating to the growth of awareness of one's own higher individuality. There are times when even the involvement of family or the cloistered life of a monastic institution have saturated one's aura and occasional liberations are needed.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 5 : Solitude > # 75