If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
You can see something on film, but until you're really out there playing against somebody and you see him for the first time, you don't really know.
You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.
I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.
