The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?