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Can the mind stop running away, escaping, and not ask how to stop running away? The very inquiry into how the mind is to stop escaping becomes another escape. —Krishnamurti Context: To know your own emptiness, you must look at it. But you cannot look at it if your mind is seeking a distraction from the fact that it is empty. That distraction takes the form of attachment to a person, to the idea of God, to a dogma or belief. Can the mind stop running away, escaping, and not ask how to stop running away? The very inquiry into how the mind is to stop escaping becomes another escape. If I know that a certain path does not lead anywhere, I do not walk on that path; there is no question of how not to walk on it. Similarly, if I know that no escape, no amount of running away will ever resolve this loneliness, this inward emptiness, then I stop running, I stop being distracted. Then the mind can look at the fact that it is lonely, and there is no fear. From Reflections on the Self