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"Ignorance exists only when you don't know yourself. Self-knowing is wisdom. You
may be ignorant of all the books in the world (and I hope you are), of all the
latest theories, but that is not ignorance. Not knowing oneself deeply,
profoundly, is ignorance; and you cannot know yourself if you cannot look at
yourself, see yourself actually as you are, without any distortion, without any
wish to change. Then what you see is transformed because the distance between
the observer and the observed is removed and hence there is no conflict."
Talks in Europe, April 16, 1968, p.56 |
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"If I know, I am a fool, it is a beginning point of knowledge."
Unknown source |
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"...you introduce an idea separate from action. Therefore there is never true action of what
you are but always action based on the ideal of what you will be. The stupid man always says
he is going to become clever. He sits working, struggling to become; he never stops, he never
says "I am stupid." So his action, which is based on idea, is not action at all."
The First and Last Freedom, p.244 |
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"To be ignorant is not to be free of knowledge. Ignorance is the lack of self-awareness;
and knowledge is ignorance when there is no understanding of the ways of the self."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.26 |
