If some abstract theory cannot capture certain aspects of reality (consciousness, the self, etc), then so much worse for the comprehensiveness of that theory. The theory goes, not the phenomena.

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." - Iris Murdoch

There is already something like Reason and Mind in the cosmos before the encounter between human and world. Being is transparent to mind, because Being is already saturated with Mind. The structure of Nature is already mind-like.

Rationality "works", i.e., it helps lead us into truth, because the world itself is rational. There is already something mind-like about the cosmos; one may even wish to go so far as to say the structure of the mind is isomorphic to the structure of reality.

There are aspects of reality which are invisible to us until we undergo the appropriate transformations.

"Person disappears from scientific discourse in spite of the fact that all articulated facts are made by persons. Science is being effected in the name of human persons, but this same person turns out to be outside of scientific description." - Alexei Nesteruk

"Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed.. by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts." - Paul Valery

The cosmos is awash in intelligibility.

Every venture of reason is grounded in the faith that the rational structure of our mind is mirrored in the wider Cosmos. There is something like Reason already "out there" in the world, with our reason participating in this primordial one.

Self-discovery occurs through others.

It seems strange to conclude that meaning exists in us, but not in the wider universe when it is our perception of meaning in the world ("this observation means that") that allows us to understand the world in the first place.

Man must polish his mirror so that it better reflects the Divine Light within.

"Much contemporary discussion about science and religion assumes that there are discrete human activities, "science" and "religion", which have had some unitary and enduring essence that persists over time." - Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion

We live in an age of perhaps unprecedented moral advocacy, but vehement disagreement on moral ontology.

"Intelligence is something more than simply what can be objectified in logic or a method, no matter how elaborate." - Lonergan

The idea that the part of Nature (human beings) that can, however partially, understand the rest of Nature is insignificant, strikes me as strange.

The aspiration to a "view from nowhere" will of necessity struggle to accommodate consciousness, since consciousness is precisely a view from somewhere.

The urge to dance is just one manifestation of the general human desire to track (and conform to) the rhythms of Being, and delight in its melodies and harmonies.