The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is, Self-knowledge has no end—you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then you are undergoing a transformation.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. The competitive spirit is merely an additive process which is not learning at all. This is true not only of competition with others but competition with yourself as well.

Only in a relationship do you see the face of what is.

The whole of life, from the moment you are born, to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Freedom from the desire for an answer in essential to the understanding of a problem.

To say that the mind can or cannot be free from its conditioning is still part of its conditioning, but to observe that conditioning without saying either is a furthering of awareness—awareness of the whole process of thinking.

Being fully conscious of one's whole process of thinking, and being able to go beyond tnat process, is awareness.

Awareness is of the total process of the mind, not just of one particular segment of that process.

Being watchful from moment to moment of all its thoughts, its feelings, its reactions, unconscious as well as conscious, the mind is constantly discovering the significance of its own activities, which is self-knowledge.