“Consciousness—& along with it our ‘self’—is situated, like a median or an intermediate center, between …
“Consciousness—& along with it our ‘self’—is situated, like a median or an intermediate center, between two zones of darkness, stretching above & below it: on the one hand, the silent, unconscious life of our ‘self’ in God; on the other, the silent & unconscious life of the body”