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Detachment from the world is an absolute necessity for the man who seeks authentic inner peace, and not its imagined counterfeit. But renouncement of the world is not necessary to any except those who have an inborn natural vocation for the monkish life.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 242