K maintained that no social reform would ever end human misery; people would always transform any new system into what they themselves were;

K asked whether there was an intelligence not born of knowledge and therefore free of self-interest.

Choice implies direction, an action of the will. K, as he explained it, was talking about awareness from moment to moment of all that was taking place inside oneself without any effort to change or direct it. It was a matter of pure observation, of looking, which would lead to self-transformation without effort.

Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable.’

At the Feet of the Master by Alcyone,

Can the mind, whose very essence is of time, catch love, which is its own eternity?44

the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical change in the mind.

Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is in each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.’

it was the escape from loneliness that brought sorrow, not the fact of loneliness, of death; grief was self-pity, not love.