| One can see the necessity of a brain that is quiet – the nerves quiet, relaxed, but tremendously taut, in the sense alive and highly sensitive. This is essential. You cannot do this through drugs, tricks, the repetition of words, or going into ecstasies. When the mind is completely quiet, right through, such a mind can live. It has a movement entirely different from the movement in time. From Public Discussion 8, London, 21 May 1963 Read more | 