| You insult or flatter me. Is it possible for the mind not to give soil to that, instantly? That is, when you flatter me, I listen, I am attentive, watchful. You may be telling the truth, and if you are not, it’s your affair – it doesn’t enter very deeply – finished. If you flatter me, I watch it too, very carefully – the mind watches it – and if it is just, you know, silly stuff, I reject it, the mind rejects it. Now, can this happen all the time, so that the mind never accumulates images? From Small Group Discussion 2, Ojai, 19 March 1970 Read more | 