"I have no doubt whatever that most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness... We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream." ~ William James

'"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.' ~ 1 Corinthians 2:16

I am not yet sure of the implications of juxtaposing these this quote and this verse. I'm still thinking about it.

On the one hand, I think that the first quote doesn't take into account our limitedness as human beings. I know that limitedness firsthand; I would like to be so much more than I am, and yet I am not physically capable of it. And I think most people are like that; their minds think much farther than what they can, in their physical humanness, handle. Even the amount of consciousness we make use of, we cannot handle.

Yet 1 Corinthians 2:16, evaluated next to this verse, evokes an interesting thought - I think that in Christ, we do have "reservoirs of life" to draw upon, of which we do not (cannot) dream. "But we have the mind of Christ..." - that is something to think about. If William James implied such things about the human mind, what there must be to us in Christ!