When you see the futility, the absurdity, the falseness of analysis, it drops away. What is the state of the mind that has put aside analysis? It is freer, isn’t it? Therefore it’s more alive, more active, and therefore much more intelligent, sharper, sensitive. You have seen the fact of how fear comes into being, learnt about it, watched it, and the process of pleasure – watched it. Watch your own state of mind, which has become now more acute, much more alive, much more sharp, much clearer, therefore tremendously intelligent. This intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with knowledge, with experience. You can’t arrive at this intelligence or let this intelligence happen by going to college and learning how to be sensitive. This intelligence comes when you have observed very closely the whole structure of analysis, what’s implied in it: the analyser, the analysed, time, the stupidity of thinking one fragment is going to clear up the whole process, and seeing the nature of fear and understanding what pleasure is. Seeing all that makes the mind extraordinarily sharp and clear, therefore free. So when fear comes upon you, which has become a habit, you’ll know how to meet it, and not postpone it – you’ll meet it. And the very meeting of it is the ending of it at that moment because your intelligence is in operation – not only the known, psychological fears but also the deep, hidden fears.
From Public Talk 2, Santa Monica, 4 March 1970