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Both the necessity and justification of meditation lie in this, that man is so preoccupied with his own thoughts that he is never aware of the mind out of which they arise and in which they vanish. The process of stilling these thoughts, or advanced meditation, makes this awareness possible.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 36