In the matter of camouflage-&-duplicity, one man says he has begun to think of reality as:
"That thing, passing itself off as life."

A being from another world (who could read minds), after a visit to Earth, mused:
"If men's actions were actually as directed by their thinking as they believe,
their planet would by now be without them."

Once you've been bedded and fedded, the only thing left is to be mentally entertained or informed,
with the former consisting almost exclusively still of physical things vicariously pursued,
and the latter confined mostly to matters of a practical material nature.

Regarding the matter of interest-&-attraction, one man so pondered:
"If mystics aren't weird enough for real weirdos, and too weird for intellectuals,
then who do they appeal to other than one another?"

A more conscious mind never relies on or presents
local examples or personal anecdotes as proof of anything.

Corollary: Transcendental knowledge is never in any fashion
racially, religiously, culturally, nationalistically,
or gender specific or dependent.
(And a guy mused: "Well, no wonder it's so easily heard by everyone.")

And now, another response to that eternal question: "What is it to be human?"
It is to say that you want one thing, but to be perfectly happy accepting something else.

The speaker so challenged his audience: "What could be more difficult than to whip up overt enthusiasm in a bunch of mystics?" And a voice shouted back: "The ease with which it can be done?" And, just because it rhetorically didn't make sense, doesn't mean that it didn't mean anything.

Another way in which the mind is magical is that it is the only creature
that can be in two places at once.
(Though those of greater understanding might question
the positive connotations of the word "magical.")