Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They 
don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor 
why they never realize complete happiness and 
lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, 
people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art 
of progress.

– Paramahamsa Yogananda