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Preserve thy loneliness from all men; remain undisturbed by all except the impression, free thyself from anything that could be foreign to thy being, and direct thy conscience towards the solitary view by which thou bearest a beast in thine soul as an object from which thine eyes never wander. Complete isolation of soul brooks no imitation of creatures, no self-humiliation, nor self-elevation, and strives to be neither below or above, wanting only to rest in itself, reaching neither towards love nor towards suffering. It does not consider it's equality, or inequality, with other beings. It wants neither to be the one, nor the other. It wants only to be at one with itself. |