How is one to be aware?

"How is one to be aware? - 30 July 1949• Does the understanding of ourselves demand a specialization? • What is it that we need capacity for?• How is one to be capable of meeting life as a whole?• How are we aware of something?• To understand relationship there must be an awareness which is not aggressively positive.• Q: All religions have insisted on some kind of self-discipline to moderate the instincts of the brute in man. You seem to imply that such disciplines are a hindrance to the realization of God. Who is right in this matter?"