| You cannot talk about the unknown – no words, no concept can bring it within the framework of the known. The word is not the thing; the thing must be seen directly without the word, which is extraordinarily difficult. To see something out of innocency, to see something out of love – love which has never been contaminated by jealousy, hate, anger, possession or attachment. One must die to attachment, to possession, to jealousy, to envy – die without reason, die without cause, die without motive. Only then, in this freedom from the known, the other thing may be. From Public Talk 5, London, 19 June 1962 Read more | 