We see the mystery, are addressed by it, given a vocation to raise our thoughts beyond the apparent world to the source of its possibility. In time, though, we begin to seek power over reality and so become less willing to submit our minds to its power over us. Curiosity withers, ambition flourishes.
- We turn from the mystery of being to the availability of things,
- from the mystery of consciousness to the accessible objects of cognition,
- from the mystery of bliss to the imperatives of appetite and self-interest.
