The awareness of the unknown is earlier than the awareness of the known. The tree of knowledge grows upon the soil of mystery... We should not expect thoughts to give us more than what they contain. Soul and reason are not the same.
Just as the simple-minded equates appearance with reality, so does the overwise equate the expressible with the ineffable, the logical with the metalogical, concepts with things.
The awareness of the ineffable is that with which our search must begin... The search of reason ends at the shore of the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide.
Man is Not Alone; pp. 7-8
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