Either way, the Way gets its way

 Attention to one's own Self, which is ever shining as 'I', the one undivided and pure reality, is the only raft with which the individual, who is deluded by thinking 'I am the body', can cross the ocean of unending births. The 'I' in its purity is experienced in intervals between the two states or two thoughts.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

You don’t have thoughts, thoughts have you. Self-referential thoughts that is, but outside of solving some technical problems that we tackle, most thoughts are psychological in nature or have their origin therein.

Feelings are the gateway to getting to the root cause of the psychological “I”, just as inquiring into the origin of thoughts are. In silence we are part of “That;” in the driven state too, but we don’t know it.

The Tao Te Ching postulates in chapter 1, we can be part of the mystery or we can be part of the manifestation. Either way, the Way gets its way, but how much fun if we can join the ride consciously.