What will ultimately satisfy the one in you who does not know, is not the same as the things that satisfy the one in you who does know, for no quantity, nor quality of food, drink, drugs, sex, type of shelter, or anything else material will do the job. But of profit is a clear-headed, cold-eyed consideration of the fact that the one of them, whose natural appetites are readily satisfied, and who has no doubts, and no questions as to what being alive is about, has nothing at all to say on the subject, and indeed never even thinks about it.
How can another person teach you this; who outside your own skin can know the situation for you, and what force other than the conscious combining of the two parts of your own total self can ever make you see this for yourself? They can’t; no one can, and there is no other force.
A person who does not want to see, will not see – and a person addicted-to, or simply satisfied with the natural agitation of the one in them who does not know – and will never know.
For those whose inherent hunger goes incomparably beyond the normal, mortal standard of: “I do not know, but I want to know…sort of,” it is up to you. If you truly want to know what is going on, throughout your entire being, then you can know, but it will not come from any other person, not from any book, nor ideas outside yourself. It will come from the realization of what wanting-to-know is.
J.