I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
