As I recall, late in life he said that he had met only two people that understood what he was saying; and he met really a lot of people. His work did not “attract” me to look into it or sign up to anything, but instead it just surprised me that I knew what he was doing. It was similar to what I had already learned in my own way from my own life even before I thought there were such teachers and books. It wasn’t the ideas, it was the way the words were used to indicate a direction toward something that he actually did very little to describe, except for the idea of peacefulness. That was my impression.

One of the first things that struck me after a significant moment of clarity in my own life, was that what I learned in that moment was by its nature impossible to describe or convey to any other person in any way. Simply impossible. That impossibility is very significant. People who want something to enlighten them are misguided. They can only do it on their own, even though they will find valuable clues almost anywhere in the world.