Imagine a sand castle at the beach. Grand and elaborate with merlons, turrets, moat and drawbridge, adorned with beautiful shells. Then a freak wave surges in from the sea and washes it all away. The castle (made of things – bits and pieces) is the small/false self and the wave (spirit and energy) is the big/true Self. The difference between them is total. Incomparable, incompatible, incommensurable. Of entirely other worlds. The modern mind, both lazy and fearful, is in the castle, whereas the heart, fundamentally primal and archaic, is with the wave.