' An Unconditioned Power '...

There is an irreducible Principle of Being behind all other beings,

an Unconditioned Power behind all lesser and limited powers,

a final Reality which was never born or put together.

Call it what you will, you can neither define nor describe it adequately:

men do not perceive it because they do not have the necessary faculty for perceiving it,

for that is a faculty which has nothing to do with the affairs of their little ego and its little world.

But they can awaken this insight, nurture it, develop it.


-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 4:
Its Realization Beyond Ecstasy > # 153 Paul Brunton