Is there no way out of the mind?
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.
The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go.
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.