Many people who aspire to what they believe to be the spiritual life think that they must go away and live in an ashram or closed community.Not so!
The true ascetic is he who lives in the world, surrounded by its temptations; he in whose soul the animal elements are still active, craving for the gratification of their desires and possessing the means for such gratification, but who by the superior power of his will conquers his animal self.
Having attained that state he may retire from the world................He expects no further reward in heaven; for what could heaven offer him except happiness which he already possesses?
He desires no other good, but to create good for the world.
The truth is inside yourself not in some physical place.
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