Jean Klein Quotes

#1. Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

Jean Klein

#2. The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

Jean Klein

#3. The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

Jean Klein

#4. To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

Jean Klein

#5. You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.

Jean Klein

#6. Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

Jean Klein

#7. In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

Jean Klein

#8. It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

Jean Klein

#9. The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

Jean Klein