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'''Related topics:''' [[Concentration]]
Knowledge can only come by conscious identity, for that is the only true knowledge,―existence aware of itself.<ref>Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 18, p. 213.</ref>
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Generally it comes through interest and a special attraction for a subject ― ''Mother's note.''
<ref>The Mother. cwm/14/concentration</ref>
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There is always some kind of unconscious identification with the surrounding people and things; but by will and practice one can learn to concentrate on somebody or something and to get consciously identified with this person or this thing, and through this identification you know the nature of the person or the thing.
''20 May 1955''
<ref>The Mother. cwm/14/concentration</ref>
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...all knowledge is knowledge by identification. That is, one must become that which one wants to know. One may surmise, imagine, deduce, one may reason, but one does