There is a delight in seeing something very beautiful. If you are at all sensitive, if you are at all observant, if there is a feeling of relationship to nature, there is a tremendous delight. Unfortunately, very few people have this relationship. They stimulate it, but the actual relationship to nature is when you see something marvellously beautiful, like a mountain with all its shadows and valleys. Now see what happens: at that moment, there is nothing but that. That is, the beauty of the mountain, lake or single tree on a hill, that beauty has knocked everything out of me. And at that moment, there is no division between me and that – there is a sense of great purity and enjoyment. From Dialogue 7 with Allan W. Anderson in San Diego, 21 February 1974 Read more |