Awareness

Each of us is aware of far more than we can ever express.  We all know more than we allow ourselves to know because of certain cowardice in the face of the inexpressible, and fear of accepting its effect on us as guide to the nature of its reality.  Yet those who can persuade themselves to be guided thus in their pursuit of the totality of truth, find themselves rewarded not so much by a surrender of any significant part of the essential mystery, as by its transformation into something accessible as living wonder.

~Laurens van der Post
The Mantis Carol