strings: come through search, through following someone else, through belonging to any particular organization, through reading books, and so on? After all, that is the main issue, is it not ? , that so long as I do not understand myself, I have no basis for thought, and all my search will be in vain. I can escape into illusions, I can run away from contention, strife, struggle; I can worship another; I can look for my salvation through somebody clse. But so long as I am ignorant of myself, so long as I am unaware of the total process of myself, I have no basis for thought, for affection, for action.