In the process of putting so much pressure on language, thought ceases to be satisfied with the support of words; it bursts away from them in order to seek its resolution elsewhere. This "elsewhere" should not be understood as a transcendent realm, a mysterious metaphysical domain. This "elsewhere" is "here" in the immediacy of real life. It is from right here that our thoughts rise up, and it is here that they must come back. But after what travel! Live first; then turn to philosophy; but, in the third place, live again. The man in Plato's cave has to go out and contemplate the light of the sun; then, strengthened by this light, which he keeps in his memory, he has to return to the cave. Verbal philosophy is only a necessary stage in this voyage.

René Daumal, Mount Analog