Please read quotes 1044-1047 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
True dispassion does not arise in one by austerity, charity, pilgrimage, etc. but only by directly perceiving one’s own nature. And, there is no means for direct Self-realization except right self-exertion.
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