Samson's rule

Seeing your own eyes limits your sight. Hearing your own ears limits your hearing.
Being self-conscious limits your ability to be.
The gradual development of self-consciousness is almost by definition enculturation. Enculturation is one’s gradual ingestion of the surrounding culture until they become like it. It requires willing participation in the game. A child does not start out self-conscious but becomes so. It is when one begins to know that he knows, thinks, and judges that one forgets how it is he knows, thinks, and judges. He forgets from where his golden gift came.  He breaks Samson’s rule and “lays a hand on his head.” 
It is when you think you know truth—that you don’t. 
It is when you know that you are the judge that you lose the ability.
It is the difference between feeling enslaved by your responsibilities in the world and feeling free to keep the temple and everything in it.
Are you weak?  Are you enslaved? Are you pushing the millstone round and round? 
​Then…you are also blind.