You Are Before Being And Not Being,

You Are The Self, That Perfect Immutable Self. Nothing Else Exists. Nothing Else Ever Existed. Nothing Else Will Ever Exist. There Is Only One Self And You Are That. Rejoice!

When You Catch On To Your Awakening, The World Does Not Change. You Just See It Differently, That's All. You Acquire A Feeling Of Immortality. A Feeling Of Divine Bliss, So To Speak, When Things No Longer Have The Power To Affect You.

The Word Beauty Is Unavoidable … It Accounts For My Decision To Photograph … There Appeared A Quality, Beauty Seemed The Only Appropriate Word For It, In Certain Photographs, And I Am Compelled To Live With The Vocabulary Of This New Sight … Through Over Many Years [i] Still Find It Embarrassing To Use The Word Beauty, I Fear I Will Be Attacked For It, But I Still Believe In It.

Never Pray To God For Release Of Your Problems. Never Pray To God To Change Your Life, And To Give You Something Better. This Is Wrong Prayer. If You Have To Pray To God, Pray To God To Give You The Strength And The Wisdom And The Courage That You Need To Be Able To Handle The Situation That You're In. This Is Correct Prayer.

The Job Of The Photographer, In My View, Is Not To Catalogue Indisputable Fact But To Try To Be Coherent About Intuition And Hope. This Is Not To Say That He Is Unconcerned With The Truth.