You must have a very quiet mind, an absolutely still mind to see anything clearly. So there are various schools all over the world that say they will teach you how to be quiet, how to have a still mind. Pay, and we’ll show it to you; do these things and you’ll get it. In the doing of those things, your mind becomes mechanical and therefore you have lost the quality of a free mind.
From a Talk to Young People, Florence, 27 October 1970