Close your eyes, imagine the sea at noon.
Now, what is the sun that illumines the sea in your mind?
One thing is certain: it is NOT the external Sun.
What is the light that illumines your mind? Can you experience that which illumines instead of that which is being illuminated?
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Certainly—and when one experiences it, all that is illuminated by it is to him like the affairs of the Earth are to the Sun... :-)