You can ask questions, but we come back to the same thing over and over again, which is, your own capacity to look, to listen, to find out. This capacity is not to be nurtured or developed because the moment you develop something, it becomes a habit. Then it becomes knowledge to which you will always refer. The thing is very subtle; it demands an attention which is burning all the time. When I say ‘all the time’, I don’t mean a continuous thing. It doesn’t matter if you drop it, but pick it up and then examine why you dropped it, so that your mind is active, alive, never letting a thought or feeling slip by.
From Public Dialogue 1, London, 10 June 1962