Now, very briefly, I must just touch on the means for reaching this state. Here, again, it has been constantly stressed that the means do not consist in mental activity and discursive reasoning. They consist in what Roger Fry, speaking about art, used to call “alert passivity,” or in what a modern American mystic, Frank C. Laubach, has called “determined sensitiveness.” This is a very remarkable phrase. You don’t do anything, but you are determined to be sensitive to letting something be done within you. And one has this expressed by some of the great masters of the spiritual life in the West.
