Introspection Is Incomplete (16 june 2006)

In awareness there is only the present—that is, being aware, you see the pastprocess of influence which controls the present and modifies the future. Awarenessis an integral process, not a process of division. For example, if I ask thequestion, “Do I believe in God?”—in the very process of asking, I can observe, if Iam aware, what it is that is making me ask that question; if I am aware I canperceive what have been and what are the forces at work that are compelling me toask that question. Then I am aware of various forms of fear—those of my ancestorswho have created a certain idea of God and have handed it down to me, and combiningtheir idea with my present reactions, I have modified or changed the concept of God.If I am aware, I perceive this entire process of the past, its effect in the presentand in the future, integrally, as a whole.If one is aware, one sees how through fear one's concept of God arose; or perhapsthere was a person who had an original experience of reality or of God andcommunicated it to another who in his greediness made it his own, and gave impetusto the process of imitation. Awareness is the process of completeness, andintrospection is incomplete. The result of introspection is morbid, painful, whereasawareness is enthusiasm and joy.
The Book of Life - June 16