It is one of the most difficult things to be free, to forget everything that one has known, inwardly of yesterday, to die to every experience one has had, pleasurable or painful. But only then is the mind free to live, to act totally. To do this requires an awareness without choice, a passive awareness in which all the secret longings, urges, compulsions, wishes and desires are revealed, where the mind does not choose but merely observes. The moment you choose, you have subtly established authority, and therefore the mind is no longer free. To be aware inwardly of every movement of thought, the implications of every word, the significance of every desire and wish, and not to deny or accept, but pursue, watch choicelessly, this frees the mind from authority. It is only when the mind is free that it can discover what is true and what is false, and not before; and this freedom is not at the end but at the beginning.

From Collected Works, Vol. 12

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