Pilgrim Eye
"Just as our visible eye, set firmly in its place in the head, only sees with one half of its globe, while the other half is sightless and left blind -- so too the human intellect, as long as it is bustling actively in the worldly element and ruled by the senses, is unworthy of its talents, with one half illuminated and the other half in darkness; only perceiving what is in the world, and not that which is within man himself. Imagine, then, that the physical eye could free itself from its natural position in the head, detach itself from the individual and make itself independent, as if it were being held in mid-air by itself. This eye would surely be the supreme vestige of the thinking capacity for cognition, perfected by contemplation." -- Charles de Bouelles
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