PROFOUNDLY WISE OLD MAN Dan was finding it more and more difficult to clearly discern what Stearne really believed or intended anymore. He had tried to teach himself to distinguish the professor‘s words from his intentions, his surface intentions from his deeper understanding, and his deeper understanding from his ultimate central motives and values. But there were as many layers to the man as there are to every human being. But in most people those layers are subconscious or unconscious and the individual himself does not understand his true motives and the forces that drive him. But Stearne was different. His self-awareness went deep, plunged through so many layers and depths, yet each was allowed to freely express itself in the appropriate context without interference from the rest. He seemed to consist of a bundle of multi-personalities living in peaceful and harmonious co-existence, yet there was a hierarchy of command that was always in-charge, ready to restore order and direction when it was called for. That depth of self-knowledge was the source of Stearne‘s penetrating insight into other people, his capacity to perceive in them what they were not altogether conscious of in themselves. Much of what passed for wisdom in him was not knowledge in any traditional sense, certainly not facts. It was the power to perceive, clearly, deeply and broadly by a greater power of consciousness. Consciousness is the original source and the essential medium for all knowledge. (from THE BOOK, p.489, by Garry Jacobs)
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