Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.