"Is it enough only to go 'back in time' and remember oneself as a small child to see that our ordinary thoughts are not our Self. It is only enough to remember how we confronted ultimate reality as children--the reality of death and injury--to see that our everyday thoughts, even our careful, logical thinking, are not the self, not the soul. When the young child needs to understand, when you or I need to understand a mystery, and ultimate fact, an overpowering reality, then and only then do we taste the begining of a new kind of thinking that comes from the inner self. Such thinking has very little in common with the views and opinions that fly in and out of the socially conditioned mind."
-- Jacob Needleman, Tine and the Soul (2003)