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Vol. 1, The Inner Life
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The Preparation for the Journey
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The Inner Life is the fullness of life
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Vol. 1, The Inner Life
The Preparation for the Journey
The Inner Life is the fullness of life
By "inner life" is meant a life directed towards perfection, which may be called the perfection of love, harmony, and beauty; in the words of the orthodox, towards God.
The inner life is not necessarily in an opposite direction to the worldly life, but the inner life is a fuller life. The worldly life means the limitation of life; the inner life means a complete life. The ascetics who have taken a direction quite opposite to the worldly life, have done so in order to have the facility to search into the depths of life; but going in one direction alone does not make a complete life. Therefore the inner life means the fullness of life.
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