Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

Does life continue beyond the door? The fulfilment of life is not annihilation - on the contrary - I am much more ambitious, much more desirous, much more eager than you are. It is Life. Therefore it cannot be annihilation, for you cannot annihilate Life!

Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.