Doesn't becoming imply time?
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.
One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.