There Is Not First Understanding And Then

Freedom From The Desire For An Answer Is Essential To The Understanding Of A Problem.

A Conditioned Mind May Be Inventive; It May Think Up New Ideas, New Phrases, New Gadgets; It May Build A Dam, Plan A New Society, And All The Rest Of It; But That Is Not Creativity. Creativity Is Something Much More Than The Mere Capacity To Acquire A Technique. It Is Because This Extraordinary Thing Called Creativity Is Not In Most Of Us That We Are So Shallow, Empty, Insufficient. And Only The Mind That Is Free Can Be Creative.

Teaching Is Not The Mere Imparting Of Information But The Cultivation Of An Inquiring Mind Which Will Penetrate Into The Question Of What Is Religion And Not Merely Accept The Established Religions, Churches, And Rituals.

Let The Mind Be Empty, And Not Filled With The Things Of The Mind. Then There Is Only Meditation, And Not A Meditor Who Is Meditating . . . The Mind Must Be Clear, Without Movement, And In The Light Of That Clarity The Timeless Will Be Revealed.

We All Place Ourselves At Various Levels, And We Are Constantly Falling From These Heights. It Is The Falls We Are Ashamed Of. Self-esteem Is The Cause Of Our Shame, Of Our Fall. It Is This Self-esteem That Must Be Understood, And Not The Fall.