I Thought I Was Taking Pictures Of

There Is Only One I Actually. That I Is Consciousness. When You Follow The Personal I To The Source, It Turns Into The Universal I, Which Is Consciousness. Begin To Catch Yourself. Begin To Realize Your Divine Nature. You Do This By Keeping Quiet. The Fastest Way To Realization Is To Keep Quiet.

The Photographer Hopes, In Brief, To Discover A Tension So Exact That It Is Peace.

Change No One. Change Nothing. React To No One, React To Nothing. Do Not Live In The Past And Do Not, Worry About The Future. Stay In The Eternal Now, Where All Is Well. After All You Are Me And I Am You. There's No Difference. Do Not React To The World. Do Not Even React To Your Own Body. Do Not Even React To Your Own Thoughts. Learn To Become The Witness. Learn To Be Quiet.

When Photographers Get Beyond Copying The Achievements Of Others, Or Just Repeating Their Own Accidental First Successes, They Learn That They Do Not Know Where In The World They Will Find Pictures. Nobody Does. Each Photograph That Works Is A Revelation To Its Supposed Creator.

Part Of The Reason That These Attempts At Explanation Fail, I Think, Is That Photographers, Like All Artists, Choose Their Medium Because It Allows Them The Most Fully Truthful Expression Of Their Vision... As Robert Frost Told A Person Who Asked Him What One Of His Poems Meant, 'you Want Me To Say It Worse?'