Sublime

you going?” Is there any need to go anywhere? A child simply cannot answer your question because it is irrelevant. He is not going anywhere. He will simply shrug his shoulders. He will say, “Nowhere.” Then the goal-oriented mind asks, “Then why are you running?”—because to us an activity is relevant only when it leads somewhere.

He simply means that whatever we see or think or feel is our own mind, which is, of course, a tautology. A=A.

When we are no longer identified with the idea of ourselves, the entire relationship between subject and object, knower and known, undergoes a sudden and revolutionary change. It becomes a real relationship, a mutuality in which the subject creates the object just as much as the object creates the subject. The knower no longer feels himself to be i

The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things—it fits.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. —Heraclitus

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn’t mean much.

« Sur la route, qui m’occupe l’esprit en permanence, est le roman de deux gars qui partent en Californie en auto-stop, à la recherche de quelque chose qu’ils ne trouvent pas vraiment, au bout du compte, qui se perdent sur la route, et reviennent à leur point de départ pleins d’espoir dans quelque chose d’autre. »