The Spirit blows where he will. He calls from within, he calls from without. May his chosen ones never fail to attend to his call! In the desert or in the jungle, just as much as in the world, the danger is always to fix one's attention upon oneself. For the wise man, who has discovered his true Self, there is no longer either forest or town, clothes or nakedness, doing or not-doing. He has the freedom of the Spirit, and through him the Spirit works as he wills in this world, using equally his silence and his speech, his solitude and his presence in society. Having passed beyond his "own" self, his "own" life, his "own" being and doing, he finds bliss and peace in the Self alone, the only real Self.
~ The Further Shore, Abhishiktananda
