There is nothing in the special graces of God which should hinder a placid acceptance of the routine of a novitiate.

The merging of individual conduct into the common custom is the contribution which community life must exact from every member.

If a man is to be a hermit he may act from individual impulses alone, though, even so, rarely without counsel.

But if one would live and work with others, special graces and individual traits of character must not be allowed to interfere with a certain degree of uniformity.

On the other hand, that uniformity should not be allowed to cripple the spontaneous action of natural independence, and the inspiration of graces which are personal.
It must be granted that with many souls a novitiate will tend to a routine use of religious aids.