Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable.’

Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past.

At the Feet of the Master by Alcyone,

The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

‘To be free of authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion.’ This little book, under the title, chosen by K himself, of Freedom from the Known, was published in 1969.

that imminent feeling of sacredness, began to take place.

The only way to avoid sorrow is to be without any resistance, to be without any movement away from sorrow, outwardly or inwardly, to remain totally with sorrow without wanting to go beyond it.’

it was the escape from loneliness that brought sorrow, not the fact of loneliness, of death; grief was self-pity, not love.

It’s really a question of life itself. Either you live in the past, or you live totally differently: that is the whole point.