"It is such an honour for all of us to pay this homage to the great poet, printer and a prophet that was William Blake. ... ...
He was an incarnation of Bhairavanath. That’s whom you call the St. Michael or St. George, who is as you know the Saint Angel of England. That’s why he had to incarnate and for him, this was his role, to talk about divine in a open, fearless manner. He had to use symbolic language. He had to use. It’s not difficult to understand him at all, if you are a realised soul. You’ll read through it, sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping, enjoying the whole drama, what he has tried to explain. When I read him I am amazed at his sense of humor... How he openly comes out with such remarks.
I feel he is like Markandeya in India or Kabir Das in India, who slashed the whole society with their sword all the time, to see that they are brought to the proper shape, without fear. But so gentle. If you read the Song of the Thel, it’s so gentle."
Public Programme (PP) 28th November 1985, Hammersmith, London
"We are living either in the past or in the future. All our thoughts are from the past or from the future. We cannot be in the present. We’re jumping on the cusp of the past and the future but when this Kundalini rises she moves these thoughts aside and there’s a space in between, which is the present, where there is no thought.
Thus you become thoughtlessly aware. You are aware but no thoughts. Whenever you want to think, you can think. If you don’t want to think, you can switch off your mind. That is the time when you grow spiritually, when you are thoughtlessly aware, when you are in that state. We call it in Sanskrit language Nirvichar Samadhi."
PP 13th September 1992, Vancouver, Canada
"Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Centre your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there but you will be able to step out of its way."
Lao Tzu. From Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation.
"The real in us is silent. The acquired is talkative."
"Every dragon gives birth to a St. George who slays it."
"A traveller am I and a navigator. And every day I discover a new region within my soul."
From Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran, 1926.