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The significance of thoughts If our thought determines to what we attend, then one type of obstruction to consciousness exists simply in wrong or incomplete patterns of thought. This is exactly what happens today, since the dominant thought held in our times, the misconception which claims that inner experience is unimportant, means that we form the habit of attending only briefly or incompletely to inner sensations. Thus, in self-fulfilling prophecy, we do not find what we expect not to find: giving no attention to the inner world, we find there nothing of importance -- if we find anything at-all. Thus, Clement of Alexandria was correct when he put it that what we believe ourselves to know makes us blind to what we might truly know.
"If any man thinketh
that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know."
For the truth is never mere opinion. But the "supposition of knowledge
inflates," and fills with pride; "but charity edifieth,"
which deals not in supposition, but in truth. Whence it is said, "if
any man loves, he is known." [v] Careful self-observation confirms the statement, made by modern commentators on this tradition, that in the normal, unpurified human mind, illusions are as much part of the content of memory as is genuine knowledge -- perhaps more, since the only knowledge we normally possess is partial knowledge or 'knowledge of the world', shaped by man's mind with all the distortions this is prone to. This idea agrees with the Indian tradition of the Vedas, in which maya, illusion, prevents vidya, knowledge. |
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