You have an image about your wife or husband, girlfriend and so on. These images have been created by thought. If you have lived with them for many years, naturally through a daily life of pleasantness, unpleasantness, sex, pleasure and all the rest of it, you have inevitably created an image about the other, and they about you. These images are the product of thought, and these images bring about division in relationship. It is only a relationship between images, and the image is the product of the continued movement of thought. So can you observe without the movement of thought? Only then do you see the whole of life as a unitary movement, not a fragmentary movement. So from that observation is an action which is totally complete and non-contradictory.
From a Public Talk, Rome, 29 October 1972