The observer is the observed.
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.