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A Spanish friend, who put into his mysticism all the ardours of his people, called this practice "inner work." The monks of Mount Athos, who use hundreds of times a day the same declaration which the Rumanian mystics used, call it "work."
-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 6 : Mantrams, Affirmations > # 201