Jiddhu Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)

A still mind is not seeking experience of any kind. And if it is not seeking and therefore is completely still, without any movement from the past and therefore free from the known, then you will find, if you have gone that far, that there is a movement of the unknown, which is not recognized, which is not translatable, which cannot be put into words - then you will find that there is a movement, which is of the immense. That movement is of the timeless, because in thatthere is no time, nor is there space, nor something in which to experience, nor something to gain, to achieve. Such a mind knows what is creation - not the creation of the painter, the poet, the verbalizer; but that creation, which has no motive, which has no expression. That creation is love and death. This whole thing from the beginning to the end is the way of meditation.

A man, who would meditate, must understand himself. Without knowing yourself, you cannot go far. However much you may attempt to go far, you can go only so far as your own projection; and your own projection is very near, is very close, and does not lead you anywhere. Meditation is that process of laying the foundation instantly, immediately, and bringing about - naturally, without any effort - that state of stillness. And only then is there a mind, which is beyond time, beyond experience, and beyond knowing.