And so, for the first time
in my life perhaps, I took the lamp and, leaving the zone of everyday
occupations and relationships where everything seems clear, I went down into my
inmost self, to the deep abyss whence I feel dimly that my power of action
emanates. But as I moved further and further away from the conventional
certainties by which social life is superficially illuminated, I became aware
that I was losing contact with myself. At each step of the descent a new person
was disclosed within me of whose name I was no longer sure, and who no longer
obeyed me. And when I had to stop my exploration because the path faded from
beneath my steps, I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and out of it came –
arising I know not from where – the current which I dare to call my life.
--Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin
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