I can ask casually about a problem and its answer, but if I enter into the problem wholly, with my heart and mind, and not try to escape from it, in the very looking at the problem, in that problem is the answer. Therefore, when one asks a question, one must not only be responsible for the asking but also responsible for receiving the answer. How you receive the answer is much more important than how you ask the question, because you may not like the answer at all – you may reject it because it doesn’t, for the time being, please you, or you don’t see the value of it, or you are thinking in terms of profit.
From Talk to Young People 2, Stanford University, 12 February 1969