Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain