“If his goal is more unaware—you know, he wants to forget the past; he wants not to hurt the next time he gets hit; he wants to be unaware of the meanness which surrounds him in the team. See? Wants to be unaware, wants to be unaware, wants to be unaware—which direction will he go? He’ll get feebler and older! …
“Why, when we audit somebody, does he recover? Well actually, the accident happened so fast that he was unable to confront and observe all parts of it. He was so unaware that he couldn’t observe everything that happened. …
“That tells you at once that a greater awareness is a desirable goal and a lesser awareness is an undesirable goal. The way out, then, is the way through.”
— L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture Reality Scale in Action delivered on 3 January 1957. This can be found in the 16th American ACC lectures. Track 14.
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