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14 Jan 2015

... The antennae of intellectual research cannot penetrate into the Overself because thinking can only establish relations between ideas and thus must forever remain in the realms of dualities, finitudes, and individualities. It cannot grasp the whole but only parts. Therefore reason which depends on thinking is incompetent to comprehend the mysterious Overself. Realization is to be experienced and felt...
5.7.8.1,
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9 Jan 2020

… Our senses can perceive only what they have been formed to perceive. Our reason similarly cannot grasp what it was never formed to grasp. Within their legitimate spheres of operation, the deliverances of both sense and reason should be acceptable to us, but outside those spheres we must seek for something that transcends both…
5.7.8.1,
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18 Apr 2013

... Every verbal explanation really fails to explain the Overself unless and until we know it for ourself within ourself and as ourself.
5.7.8.2,
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19 Apr 2015

... It is because thinking must always have an object with which to occupy itself that it can never penetrate the Overself, for here there is only the One. We must renounce thoughts and things if we would enter into the Absolute…
5.7.8.2,
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7 Nov 2022

… When rational thinking can perceive that it cannot transcend itself, cannot yield more than another thought, it has travelled as far as it can go and performed its proper function …
5.7.8.2,
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