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Kena Upanishad: “Brahman is unknown to those who know It, and is known to those who do not know It at all.” This knowing of Reality by unknowing is the psychological state of the man whose ego is no longer split or dissociated from its experiences, who no longer feels himself as an isolated embodiment of logic and consciousness, separate from the “

Alan W. Watts • Become What You Are: Expanded Edition

“This is what is ultimate in the human knowledge of God—to know that we do not know God.”

J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

begin with an attitude of not knowing, including not knowing about how we know about anything, especially what is most important to us.

John E. Mack • Passport to the Cosmos

You cannot know ‘what’ you are - you can only know what you are not.

Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination

You cannot master yourself unless you know yourself.

Baltasar Gracian • The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Unabridged Start Publishing LLC)

You’re not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) You have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) Most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

Self-enquiry Core Concepts:

Introspection and Self-Awareness:
Self-enquiry is a method of turning inward to understand oneself better, moving beyond the identification with thoughts, emotions, and the external world.
Questioning the "I":
The practice often involves repeatedly asking questions like "Who am I?" to investigate the nature of the "I"