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All talk of things being inside or outside the mind is submission to the spell of a vicious spatial metaphor. All language is applicable to things and thoughts, but not to the august infinity of mind. Here every word can be at best symbolic and at worst irrelevant, while remaining always as remote from definable meaning as unseen and unseeable universes are from our own. We have lived in illusions long enough. Let us not yield the last grand hope of man to the deceptive sway of profane words. Here there must and shall be SILENCE--serene, profound, mysterious, yet satisfying beyond all earthly satisfactions.

-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2 : Our Relation To the Absolute > # 127