It Is The Intellect That Seeks

I notice it when I am walking in nature. Whatever is within me that is noisy and rumbling in the background comes to the forefront and I become aware of it.
In order to blend with the silence of the forest I must let go of these concerns and resistances within my mental/emotional being.
It is a process of letting go.
When I let go of these issues, I become more sane, more calm - or rather I merge with the abiding calmness that is always, eternally there. In that calmness there is another kind of knowing, an intelligence that is in harmony with everything.
I keep coming back to this strange realization that a process of taking away yields an intelligence that is vast and deep while a process of accumulation yields a mind that is like a computer which is only able to solve puzzles and regurgitate facts on demand. Accumulation does not seem to yield sanity nor does it yield harmony or anything that is sacred or whole. Accumulation yields an identity that is separate from the whole - thus accumulation yields suffering.
Accumulation does not have anything to do with awareness. It can take it over or obscure it.
Those who seek peace and wholeness must strip away the accumulation of the reactive mind - the intellect/ego which thinks that "it knows" - and let go of seeking.
It is the intellect that seeks.