October 28, 2026
We have accustomed ourselves to consider only that clear which shines as an object in front of us. The self is not an object, it is the subject. What is the self? It isn't clear because of the constant endeavor to objectify it. It can never be made an object. That which threw up that question is the self. The self is the self; the self is.
We should divest ourselves of this bad habit of considering only that as knowledge in which there is an awareness of an object. When this has dropped away it is possible that what is called self-knowledge or the self which is knowledge, or knowledge which is the self becomes clear in its own way; not in the way in which I see you, not in the manner in which you see me, but in another completely different type of knowledge. That knowledge enables you and me without verification to know that "I am alive".
This quest for an object which is the goal must be dropped at the very first step, at the door. Not merely your hats and shoes, but that which is inside your skull also has to go. That which you call your soul must be exposed like the soles are exposed if the shoes are taken off.