The Beginning of Self-Knowledge

The outpouring of devotion to an object, self-created or created by another, is surely not meditation. If none of these things are meditation, discipline, concentration, prayer, devotion, then what is meditation? Those are the forms which we know, which we are familiar. And therefore the very examination of these things reveals the way of your own thinking. So, meditation is the beginning of self-knowledge. Without self-knowledge there can be no meditation and without meditation there can beno self- knowledge.

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