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The ascetic disciplines are often useful and necessary phases wherein to get rid of attachments to undesirable habits, remove impeding blockages, and get out of unhealthy conditions. But they are only phases of the quest, only means to an end. If they are overdone, or their place magnified and misunderstood, they create new blockages, attachments, and new cages from which the ascetic will later need to seek liberation. To condemn the human satisfactions, to reject pleasures, to brush aside the arts as irrelevant, is too sweeping, goes too far, and makes for unreasonableness.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 131