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2017-11-27

Can one observe the movement of the self?

One is a seeker, one is questioning; therefore one rejects completely all information provided by others about oneself. Will one do that? One will not, because it is much safer to accept authority. Then one feels secure. But if one does completely reject the authority of everybody, how does one observe ...

2017-10-19

The self is a book of many volumes

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of ...

2017-10-11

All authority must come to an end

What we are going to do is to learn about ourselves —not according to the speaker, or to Freud, or to Jung, to some analyst or philosopher— but to learn actually what we are. If we learn about ourselves according to Freud we learn about Freud, not about ourselves. To learn about oneself, all authority ...

2017-04-08

We submit to authority because all of us have this inward demand to be safe

One is afraid to think apart from what has been said by the leaders because one might lose one's job, be ostracized, excommunicated, or put into a concentration camp. We submit to authority because all of us have this inward demand to be safe, this urge to be secure. So long as we want to be secure ...

2017-03-27

Does authority create order?

I know the inevitable question will arise: If we have no authority of any kind, will there not be anarchy? Of course there may be. But does authority create order? Or does it merely create a blind following which has no meaning at all except that it leads to destruction, to misery? But if we begin to ...

2017-03-26

All authority is evil

It is what we are as individuals that creates society-society being the relationship between ourselves and others. I am speaking and please believe it has one individual to another, so that together we may understand the many problems that confront us. I am not establishing myself as an authority to...

2017-01-25

Creativeness Through Self-Knowledge

There is no method for self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result and that is what we all want. We follow authority - if not that of a person, then of a system, of an ideology - because we want a result that will be satisfactory, which will give us security....

2017-01-21

Can I Rely on My Experience?

Most of us are satisfied with authority because it gives us a continuity, a certainty, a sense of being protected. But a man who would understand the implications of this deep psychological revolution must be free of authority, must he not? He cannot look to any authority, whether of his own creation ...