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It is always helpful and sometimes necessary to let the eyes close for a while if concentration is to become more intense. But the mind, too, needs to turn just as decisively away from all other matters to gain its freedom for metaphysical thought, aspirational uplift, or even for the utter delicacy of mystical thoughtlessness.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 158