Intellectual understanding should be not indispensable to a 'simple' mind, but, with our conditioning, it would seem to be an almost inevitable preliminary. The now-moment alone is eternal and real. Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity. We have only to eliminate the ego-notion by succeeding in the difficult task of understanding that it does not exist except as a notion. Click here for more from this book.
Truth is that which lies in a dimension beyond the reach of thought.
Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised. We do not possess an 'ego'. We are possessed by the idea of one. All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. It is just the other side of the medal, and it lies wherever our senses and our intellect cease to function.