"If you are in search of the higher consciousness, you should study the ways of the mind.. The parade of thoughts, or concepts, or, mental objects, through the mind is endless and infinitely complex and varied.. you will find that the mind is the source of all actions and all human states. Yet you have little positive control over [it]"
(Ancient Buddhist texts, quoted in Rice 1981:56,111)
".. (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart..."