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The young want and ought to have gurus and doctrines. The adult should learn to discriminate for themselves, collect their own doctrines from a wide field, and become their own teachers. But in this matter of understanding life, one does not become adult and acquire a sense of responsibility precisely at twenty-one.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 267