You take notes when you are not experiencing, when you are not really thinking, feeling, experimenting. You should be able to deal directly with the problem, not think it over afterwards because, when you are really experiencing something, you don't take notes. And that is impossible if you are anxiously interested in taking notes of what I am saying. And the other thing I would like to point out is that, as I have already said before, you and I are trying to experiment together here, to feel our way into the problems that confront us. Also, if I may say so, it is so infantile, immature. You wouldn't be thinking of taking pictures and asking for autographs if you were really very, very serious. You know, all this, what one is talking about, is very serious, at least for me. Because, there is a great deal in it which needs further explanation and discussion but, before I go into that, I would like to point out one or two things.įirst of all, please don't bother to take photographs. And I would like to discuss this evening why it is that most of us contain ourselves, limit ourselves in self-consciousness, and are not capable of going beyond. Most of us are caught in that, and one doesn't seem able to go beyond. That is, one becomes more concerned about oneself. And those of you who have tried and experimented with what we have been discussing, must have come upon a very curious thing in experimenting: that through self-knowledge one accentuates self-consciousness. For the past few weeks we have been discussing the importance of self-knowledge, and how it is essential, before there can be any action, before there can be right thinking, that one should know oneself not only the superficial, conscious mind, but also the hidden, the unconscious.
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