| To see an object, there must be space – otherwise I can’t see it. A silent mind has great space, not created by the object or the observer. Have you ever watched what space is? There is space around an object. The object displaces, and there is space around it. There is space around the ‘me’, around the ‘you’. When we say ‘we’ and ‘they’, it is a space; we have created space around ourselves. When you say you are Christian, Catholic, Protestant, communist, there is a space, as you have limited yourself. And that space inevitably breeds conflict because it is limited; it divides. But when there is silence, there is not the space of division but quite a different quality of space. And there must be this space; then only that which is not measurable by thought can perhaps come. That immensity, that which is supreme, cannot be invited. From Talk to Young People 4, Stanford University, 14 February 1969 Read more | 