Anyone who has probed the inner life

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Anyone who has probed the inner life, 

who has sat in silence long enough to experience 

the stillness of the mind behind its apparent noise,

is faced with a mystery. 

Apart from all the outer attractions of life in the world, 

there exists at the center of human consciousness 

something quite satisfying and beautiful in itself,

a beauty without features. 

The mystery is not so much that these two dimensions exist - 

an outer world and the mystery of the inner world -

but that we are suspended between them, 

as a space in which both worlds meet . . . 

as if the human being is the meeting point, 

the threshold between two worlds.

~ Kabir Helmisnski, 

The Knowing Heart