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Too many persons will have nothing to do with the Quest when they learn about it for the first time. This is not because they find it impossible to believe some of the ideas on which it is based, such as the idea of reincarnation ("I find it incredible" was Somerset Maugham's comment about it). Nor is it because the metaphysical side is too abstruse for them to go through the needed labour of troubling their minds with it. No--it is because the ideal set up for the questers is, they claim, completely outside their horizon and quite unreachable by most, if not nearly all of them.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 380