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Yea, there is That which is the End-of-understanding, the "That" which thou must understand with the flower of the mind. For should’st thou turn thy mind inwards on It, and understand It as understanding “something,” thou shalt not understand It. For that there is a power of the mind’s prime that shineth forth in all directions, flashing with intellectual rays. Yet, in good sooth, thou should’st not strive with vehemence to understand that End-of-understanding, nor even with the wide-extended flame of wide-extended-mind that measures all things—except that End-of-under-standing only. Indeed, there is no need of strain in understanding this; but thou should’st have the vision of thy soul in purity, turned from aught else, so as to make thy mind empty of all things else, attentive to that End, in order that thou mayest learn that End-of-understanding; for It subsists beyond the mind.  - Chaldean Oracles The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name ...

"Know the Self as lord of the chariot, The body as the chariot itself, The discriminating intellect as The charioteer, and the mind as reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; Selfish desires are the roads they travel. When the Self is confused with the body, Mind, and senses, they point out, he seems To enjoy pleasure and suffer sorrow. When a person lacks discrimination And his mind is undisciplined, the senses Run hither and thither like wild horses. But they obey the rein like trained horses When one has discrimination and Has made his mind one-pointed. Those who lack Discrimination, with little control Over their thoughts and far from pure, Reach not the pure state of immortality But wander from death to death; but those Who have discrimination, with a still mind And a pure heart, reach journey's end, Never again to fall into the jaws of death. With a discriminating intellect As charioteer and a trained mind as reins, They attain to the...