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This is not my own discovery. The ancients and the medievals knew it, too. Richard Rolle, the fourteenth-century English mystic, states, "In ancient days many of the more perfect went out from the monasteries to dwell alone." I myself witnessed the procession of the more advanced of Ramana Maharshi's disciples exiling themselves, one by one, from his ashram during his lifetime.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 5 : Solitude > # 122