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Where do we begin to understand ourselves? Here am I, and how am I to study myself, observe myself, see what is actually taking place inside myself? I can observe myself only in relationship because all life is relationship. It is no use sitting in a corner meditating about myself. I cannot exist by myself. I exist only in relationship to people, things and ideas, and in studying my relationship to outward things and people, as well as to inward things, I begin to understand myself. Every other form of understanding is merely an abstraction and I cannot study myself in abstraction; I am not an abstract entity; therefore I have to study myself in actuality.

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Ideas are never new. Beliefs are never new. All action, whatever it is, any activity, is based on a memory, a concept, an ideal, a tradition, a thought which has remembrance.

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Intelligence Means Sensitive To The Situation What is my relationship to it? My relationship to it only is if I am that. I have no relationship to it. .... For me the world is corrupt, is geared to kill. What is the relationship to the man who goes and kills a baby seal? I say, my god how can you do such a thing! .... I want to cry about it. I do. How can you educate such a man or society which allows such a thing to happen?