“When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be."”

1st Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK (7 September 1971)
1970s

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Indian spiritual philosopher 1895–1986

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