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The freedom which he attains is in the background of consciousness, as it were. For here he rests tranquilly in the mind-essence alone. No separate ideas exist here, whereas the foreground is occupied by the ordinary ideas involved in human existence. He perceives now that the value of all his former yoga practice lay in its capacity, when success crowned it, to enable him to approach behind the stream of ideas to the bed on which it flowed, that is, to the mind-stuff itself.

-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 4 : Seek the Deeper Stillness > # 168