Human meditation has no limits; at its own risk and peril it…

Human meditation has no limits; at its own risk and peril it analyzes and produces its own bedazzlement; we might almost say that, through a species of splendid reaction, it dazzles nature with it.The mysterious world around us gives back what it receives, and it is probable that the contemplators are contemplated.However this may be, there are in the world men – are they men? – who distinctly perceive on the horizon of the Absolute, and have the terrible vision of the mountain of the Infinite.

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo