Does the development of the inner consciousness, one may ask, tend to personal isolation, to separation from the world? We are in the world, and therefore, however much we try to run away to spiritual spheres, we are thrown back to earth again. We are bound here as long as we have this earthly body. And so the best thing is to follow the process in another way:

• to gain inner expansion of consciousness, and no doubt at that time one must go within, one must close oneself to the outer world;
• but at the same time one should strive to practice the outer expansion of consciousness. In this way there is balance.