SELF - KNOWLEDGE IS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING : not because it is difficult, but because you are scared to know about yourself. A deep fear exists; everybody is trying to escape, escape from himself. This fear has to be understood. And if this fear exists, whatsoever you do will not be of much help. You may think that you want to know yourself, but if this unconscious fear is there you will continuously avoid, you will continuously try to hide, deceive. On the one hand you will try to know yourself, and on the other hand you will create all sorts of hindrances so that you cannot know.
Consciously you may think, "I would like to know myself, " but in the unconscious, which is bigger, stronger, more powerful than the conscious, you will avoid self - knowledge. So the fear has to be understood. Why are you afraid ? One thing : if you really penetrate within yourself, your image that you have created in the world will prove to be false. Your whole past will come to mean nothing, because it has been like a dream. You have invested so much in it, you have lived for it, and now to know that it has been a false phenomenon you feel hurt then your whole life has been wasted.
... OSHO The Mustard Seed
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