Pure Mind Itself...

Consciousness of course would be a meaningless term for ordinary humans unless there were thoughts and images of which to be conscious.

Nor for a single moment does consciousness remain unoccupied.

It must ordinarily feed on something.

But we need not make the common mistake of believing that mental life completely exhausts itself in a particular form of conscious life, completely vanishes when there are no thoughts and no images.

For this kind of consciousness is only a state of mind and like all states necessarily contains the possibility of evanescence.

A break in consciousness such as sleep is a significant hint of the existence of some deeper principle that underlies it.

It must therefore not be confused with this principle, which is pure mind itself.



The Wisdom of the Overself, Chapter V, The Metaphysics of Sleep, "From the Conscious to the Unconscious”... Paul Brunton