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When I look at myself, I am looking at myself through the screen of thought.

When I look at myself, I am looking at myself through the screen of thought.

From an Interview by Robert Lavine, Malibu, California, 24 February 1975

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When I look at myself, I am looking at myself through the screen of thought. Thought, being fragmentary, is never whole. Thought creates the division between the observer and the observed, and so there is conflict. Wherever there is division, there must be conflict: the Arab and the Jew, the Hindu and the Muslim. So our whole life is based on conflict because it is based on thought. Can I look at myself without authority, without a conclusion, without an image, without the process of thought which divides the observer and the observed? Can the mind observe itself?

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