It helps to remember that we are learning an amazing and multifaceted skill in inquiry. Part of learning is making mistakes, getting stuck, being lost. Remember, the spaceship we’re learning to fly is one of the most difficult and complex. When you look at the console in front of you, you don’t see any buttons. It’s just a smooth, transparent surface over glimmering lights that are constantly changing. You want to touch specific lights just at the right moments, in the correct sequence. To do this, you need speed, nimbleness, and perceptivity. Developing these capacities takes time and dedication, but after a while you become like Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation—you can’t see your hands moving because they are going so fast. – Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey, ch. 19
Since our nature is self-revealing truth, then if we are not seeing or being our true nature, it is because we are stuck in what we think we know. We believe that we understand when we don’t. We believe that we see the truth when we are not seeing the truth. This not seeing the truth and believing we see it is the unconscious unclarity, the unconscious obscuration, the omnipresent dullness of the ego-personality. The ego-self constantly recites to itself: “Truth is whatever I happen to be thinking.” Inquiry is a way of actively challenging this smug comfort of believing that what we experience and know is the truth. In doing so, it opens up a space for Being to naturally reveal its truth. – Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey, ch.24
One of the wonderful things about inquiry is that you can inquire into anything, even into inquiry itself. You cannot bind yourself when you are inquiring, you cannot get cornered, for any corner can be inquired into. It is the very nature of inquiry that nothing can escape it. You cannot say that inquiry will push you against the wall and trap you, because the moment you get trapped, you can ask, “What’s making me feel trapped? What is this trap?” You can always ask a question. There are an infinite number of questions because the mystery is inexhaustible. – Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey, Ch. 2