I’ve got that passage saved and will read more. I think his observation about the mind not only perfectly true but written clearly. Such teaching is also taught in the tradition I follow.
Truth is truth!
You probably would really enjoy the writings of the Early Orthodox Church Fathers like Saint Gregory of Nyssa,Saint Symeon,St. Gregory Palamas,St Isaac of Nineveh and a few others.
St Isaac of Nineveh wrote the following..
“Sometimes... the intellect is taken away from it as if into heaven, and tears fall like fountains of waters, involuntarily soaking the whole face. All this time such a person is serene, still and filled with a wonder-filled vision. Very often he will not be allowed even to pray: this in truth is the state of cessation above prayer when he remains continually in amazement at God’s work of creation - like people who are crazed by wine, for this is ‘the wine which causes the person’s heart to rejoice’... Blessed is the person who has entered this door in the experience of his own soul, for all the power of ink, letters and phrases is too feeble to indicate the delight of this mystery.”
... and from St. Gregory Palamas...
God makes Himself known not only through all that is but also through what is not, through transcendence, that is, through uncreated things, and also through an eternal light that transcends all beings”. This knowledge, he says, is offered today as a kind of pledge to those who are worthy of it and which “illuminates them unendingly in the unending age”. That is just why the saints’ vision of God is true, “and he who calls it false has strayed from the divine knowledge of God” . Thus anyone who ignores and disregards the vision of God, which offers true knowledge, is in reality ignorant of God.