"Psychoanalysis is concerned with the past; while one is analysing the past one is missing the challenges of the present."

Unknown source


"If you don't analyse, what are you to do? You can only look. And it is very important to find out how to look."

Truth and Actuality


"What is the state of the mind which is accustomed to analysis, to probing, looking into, dissecting, drawing conclusions and so on? If that process has stopped, what is the state of your mind?"

The First and Last Freedom, p.240


"When the analytical process completely stops, not through enforcement but through understanding the inevitable falseness of that process, then you will find that your mind is completely dissociated from the past - which does not mean that you do not recognize the past but that your mind has no direct communion with the past. So it can free itself from the past immediately, now, and this dissociation from the past, this complete freedom from yesterday, not chronologically but psychologically, is possible; and that is the only way to understand reality."

The First and Last Freedom, p.241