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Self-knowledge is possible only in deep aloneness.

Ordinarily whatever we know about ourselves is
the opinion of others. They say "You are good"
and we think we are good.
They say "You are beautiful"
and we think we are beautiful.

They say you are bad or ugly...
whatsoever people say about us we go on collecting.
That becomes our self-identity.

It is utterly false because nobody else can know you,
can know who you are, except you yourself.

Whatsoever they know are only aspects,
and those aspects are very superficial.

Whatsoever they know are only momentary moods;
they cannot penetrate your center.

Not even your lover can penetrate to the
very core of your being.

There you are utterly alone,
and only there will you come to know who you are......

0sho