Exiting,… consciously extracting one’s self from the unconscious traditions of thought and belief, in which most will temain unawares asleep, adreaming, leaves one standing rather solitarily on a hill. As if by one’s own effort of mind, the remaining surrounding fog, mist and clouds are dispelled.
And such inner acts are fully hidden from those below the clouds in the valleys.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 