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He ought not to restrict himself to a single approach. His nature as a human being has different areas, each of which needs to be worked on. The body needs cleansing, the feelings need uplifting, the thoughts need calming. Especially in the contemporary individual the critical analytic intellect needs turning away from its destructive tendency and directing constructively, first, to discriminate truth from error, reality from appearance and, second, to discern the ego and its working, as well as its education by experience.

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practices Involved > Chapter 5 : Balance the Psyche > # 206