Mind contemplating itself...

The world’s objectivity and materiality exist for the individual, but for the mind underlying both they are known as mere appearances.

When however the individual comes to comprehend this and turns his attention to this hidden mind and finally knows it for what it is both when tranquilly abiding in itself or manifested in external activity he is said to have attained supreme insight.

All other kinds of experience deal with something as if it were apart from Mind. This alone deals with something purely pertaining to Mind itself. All other experiences deal with forms but this deals with the unique formless.

The moment the mind realizes that it is itself the permanent reality behind transient appearances, the constant perceiver of its own changing thought-forms, in that moment the truth flashes across it and illusion is dispelled.

For man’s insight is Mind contemplating itself.



From Essays on the Quest
Paul Brunton