In the detachment of this solitude [of trekking through the Himalayan Mountains] I could see how little in our life depends on brain-made decisions and how much on apparently insignificant events and impressions which suddenly reveal the inner direction of our essential being. We generally look upon the insignificant [psychic] impressions and events as “accidents,” without apparent cause or connection with ourselves, without noticing that these impressions and events gained importance merely because they set free forces which were at work in us all along, but which we did not notice because our intellectually thought-out plans overshadowed the steady flow of our inner life and the driving forces of our soul.
Lama Anagarika Govinda
from The Way of the White Clouds; A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet