The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.