strings: I do not know if you have ever thought of this problem of acquiring knowledge—whether knowledge does ultimately help us to love, to be free from those qualities which produce conflict in ourselves and with our neighbours ; whether knowledge ever frees the mind of ambition. Because ambition is, after all, one of the qualities that destroy relationship, that put rnan against man. If wc would live at peace with each other, surely ambition must pleiely come to an end  not only political, economic, social ambition, but also the more subtle and pernicious arnbition, the spiritual ambition  to be something. Is it ever possible for the mind to be Cree Ii•om this accumula ting process of knowledge, this desire to know ?