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They are not necessarily strong and heroic who stay in the world and disdain flight from it. It may be that pleasures and possessions keep them there. Equally, those who have nothing worth renouncing--the poor, the unlucky, the disappointed, and the frail--make no sacrifice in passing to the cloister's shelter, the monastery's peace.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 226