A man who is really serious, who really wants to find out if there is something more than this terrible thing called existence, must be completely free from dogma, belief and propaganda; he must be free from the structure in which he has been brought up: to be a religious man with beliefs, dogmas and rituals. Through negation you come to the positive; the negation of ‘what is’ in so-called religion.
From Public Talk 4, Santa Monica, 8 March 1970