*image by Ben Harubin

 

The problems of man can never be solved
in that they are his ordinary consciousness.

There is faith and there is trust. Faith is the hopeful ignorance of the ordinary and is always tied to thought-thinking about your faith, while trust is nonverbal assurance silently arising from the understanding of those who Know.

The secret clue to doing This is not in finding a solution,
but in discovering the problem.

There is unknown territory at both ends of the nervous system;
the musky dark of the past and the blinding uncertainty of the future,
and ordinary, civilized men fear them both.

Understanding is conditionally satisfying while ordinary knowledge
is absolutely disconcerting.

The past is properly implanted in the lower levels of the nervous system, and ordinary games such as psychiatry will not be somehow allowed to do that which appears to be its aim, that is, undo a man's past which would leave him blank. His thorny past and desperate memories are now him, and this growth process up the spine in time is not to somehow now be undone, or the man himself would become undone.