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"Renounce learning, it brings loss to the Inner Life. How slight the difference between Yes and Yea! How great the difference between Good and Evil! That which men fear is indeed to be feared. When men give themselves up to disorder it never stops. Many men rejoice and rejoice over a supply of good food, over being in a high and exalted position. I am calm, I do not feel the slightest emotion, like a new-born child which cannot yet smile at its mother, without attachment to anything, returning always to the Inner Life. Many men have superfluous possessions. I have nothing that I value; I desire that my heart be completely subdued, emptied to emptiness. Men of wealth are in the daylight of prosperity. I am in the dark. Men of wealth are endowed with penetration. I appear confused and ignorant. Suddenly I am, as it were, on a vast sea, floating on the sea of Inner Life which is boundless. Many men are full of ability. I appear to be stupid and rustic. Thus I am different from other men. But I revere the Mother, Sustainer of all beings."