“The natural man receives not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him.”

Blake says: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained, and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.

Reason interfered and he did not put his money into a certain venture. Reason stands between the man of sense and the man of Imagination.

he had reasons for not wanting the world to have meaning — consciously he assumed that it had none, and without any difficulty found all the reasons in the world to support his assumption.

The real you is all Imagination, but between you and the natural man stands the specter of reason. And one must “cast him into the lake,”

everything in the world, a little sparrow falling, a bird flying into space, has meaning, if we only understood how to read it

in 1937, Aldous Huxley wrote a book called Ends and Means, and in the book he said he did not want the world to have a meaning; consequently, he assumed it had none