strings: The fundamental understanding of oneself does not come through knowledge or through the accumulation of experiences, which is merely the cultivation of memory. The understanding of oneself is from moment to moment; if we merely accumulate knowledge of the self, that very knowledge prevents fürther understanding, because accumulated knowledge and expcrience becomes the. centre through which thought focuses and has its being. The world is not different from us and our activities because it is what we are which creates the problems of the world; the difficulty with the majority of us is that v„re do not know ourselves directly, but seek a system, a method, a means of operation by which to solve the many human problems.