Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of that... knowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the cont...rary, it is the ending of the self, of the "I," with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »