#profoundness

Have you ever watched a butterfly begin to emerge from its cocoon? It must struggle to strengthen its wings. If someone prematurely frees the butterfly from the cocoon, it will not be able to fly because its crucial hardening stage will be incomplete. The same principle applies to trees: they need wind to strengthen their structure and remain upright.

Your dark night of the soul is your wind and your cocoon.

Thomas Moore | Dark Night Of the Soul 

The brain is just one more aspect of the body.

When we refer to intelligence, because the word (intelligence) is too generic, we must understand and identify the four (4) parts of it:

intellect In modern societies it is considered as mind, is an instrument of survival that functions on the basis of the limited data gathered through our sensory perceptions - largely conscious data: when we don't remember something, though the memory it is still there, the intellect goes helpless for a period of time.  Intellect is quite a useless thing if we don't have data; without data, the intellect cannot function (permutations and combinations mainly). If we have to use a simple analogy here, we can say intellect is like a knife: the sharper it is, the better is the survival.

identity  The way how we identify ourselves - nation, religion, race, creed, gender... -, that is the way how our intellect will function as a survival process, constantly trying to protect that identity. Identity is far more relevant than the intellect itself because intellect is a slave to the identity that we have taken: what is right and wrong for us is dependent upon how we are identified. Continuing the analogy, our intellect is like a knife, the identity is the hand that holds it.

memory On its eight dimensions: elemental, atomic, evolutionary, genetic, karmic(two varieties: bank of memory and active memory), articulate (conscious) and inarticulate (unconscious)

pure intelligence Intelligence without/beyond memory, i.e., limitless. It is simply there and everything happens because of that. It connects to the basis of creation within us. It connects us with our consciousness.

The profoundness of our experience is determined by how much life we have captured, how significant we feel when we sit - not in the context of society, not with reference to somebody else, not comparing ourselves to somebody and saying we're bigger than somebody.

When we sit this is a very significant life.