Enlightenment...

The goal of enlightenment can be reached by thought alone--despite the contrary assertion of the English medieval hermit who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing--but only when thought is so finely sharpened that, seeing precisely where its limits lie, it is willing to cease its own activity and surrender to the higher power. But it must be wise enough to believe in the existence of such a power, to know that It is unthinkable and unsearchable and therefore must be allowed to take over where thinking stops. Yet the medieval author is quite right to this extent--that where thought is wrapped in love and warmed by it, the enlightenment is that much more attainable. — Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 4: Meditative Thinking > # 72.......Paul Brunton