“Be watchful and move in the world as if you are alone – there is nobody. Move in the world as if it is a total loneliness – there is nobody. If nobody is there, your self-consciousness will drop by and by.

    “If you can put yourself out of the way, your whole being will say: “A masterpiece!” You become the masterpiece. There are two types of creators in the world: one type of creator works with objects – a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things; then there is another type of creation, the mystic, who creates himself. He doesn’t work with objects, he works with the subject. He works on himself, his own being. And he is the real creator, the real poet, because he makes himself into a masterpiece.

    “You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed.

    "Everyone is a masterpiece because existence never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are, and just trying on the surface to become someone. Drop the idea of becoming someone because you already are a masterpiece. It cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. Existence itself has created it; it cannot be improved.

    “Here, I’m not teaching you to improve your life – no, not me. Here, I am simply teaching you to know the life that is already there, that has always been there, that is already the case. Just put yourself aside so your eyes are not filled with the ego, your being is not cloudy, and the sky becomes open. Suddenly, not only you, the whole existence says: 'A masterpiece!' This is the first principle.”