"So the first thing to be understood is: how to attain unclouded eyes, how to make eyes empty so that they can reflect truth, how not to be continuously in a mad rush within; how not to be continuously thinking and thinking and thinking, how to relax thought. When thought is not, seeing happens; when thought is, you go on interpreting and you go on missing.

"Don't be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don't think about it, see it!

"What to do? One thing: Whenever you look, just be the look. Try. It is going to be difficult, difficult just because of old habit. But try. It happens. It has happened to many, why not you? You are no exception. The universal law is as available to you as to a buddha or to anybody. Just make a little effort.

"You see a flower: then just see, don't say anything. The river is flowing: sit on the bank and see the river, but don't say anything. Clouds are moving in the sky: lie down on the ground and see, and don't say anything. Just don't verbalize!

"This is the deepest habit, to verbalize; this is your whole training – to jump immediately to words from reality, to immediately start making words: 'beautiful flower,' 'lovely sunset.' If it is lovely, let it be lovely! – why bring in this word? If it is beautiful, do you think your word 'beautiful' will make it more beautiful? On the contrary, you missed an ecstatic moment. The verbalization came in. Before you could have seen you moved, moved in an inner wandering. If you go too far away in this wandering you become mad.

"What is a madman? He who never comes to reality, who always wanders in his own world of words – and he has wandered so far that you cannot bring him back. He is not with the reality, but are you with the reality? You are not either. The difference is only of degree. A madman has wandered very far, you never wandered that far – just in the neighborhood – and you come again and again and touch reality and go again."