‘Do you think they would describe themselves in such a way?’ he asked. ‘In mathematics, there is something called an asymptote. It’s a line that is approached by a curve, which intersects the line at infinity. That curve moves infinitely closer to the line, but the two never meet. They only get closer and closer. A highly advanced aspirant is like that curve. She forever approaches the destination without ever arriving. At any given moment, she is both infinitely close and infinitely far from the goal. Yet, she keeps moving. As long as the aspirant exists, the journey will be infinite.’
