Lesser Uses of Consciousness

From a more expansive view:
thinking is one of the lesser uses to make of consciousness.

Blindness (at the transcendental level) is caused by agitation.

And it finally -- finally -- FINALLY -- struck one man:

"If I don't listen to myself, I won't have to talk to myself."

Common among those with an initial interest in faraway knowledge is to consume travel books, climb up into trees, get on top of tall buildings in Paris with telescopes to try and get a glimpse of the mysterious mountaintops arising in Istanbul, and of course join discussion groups with those of similar interests.

Past a certain point, a mystic tells he is making progress by the fact that such distinctions are less and less clear.

A man who knows what he is
 doesn't have to say what he is.

J.