That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.