Topic: Reluctance to Accept

[Jennifer-]

Reluctance to Accept

The difficulty is our reluctance to accept the idea that knowledge can exist without words to explain it. Accepting this proposition is not as easy as saying you accept it. The whole of humanity has moved away from the abstract. It takes years for an apprentice to be able to go back to the abstract, that is, to know that knowledge and language can exist independent of each other.
     
The crux of our difficulty in going back to the abstract is our refusal to accept that we can know without words or even without thoughts. Knowledge and language are separate.
     
I told you there is no way to talk about the spirit because the spirit can only be experienced. Sorcerers try to explain this condition when they say that the spirit is nothing you can see or feel. But it's there looming over us always. Sometimes it comes to some of us. Most of the time it seems indifferent.

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[kaycee]

Reluctance to Accept
The difficulty is our reluctance to accept the idea that knowledge can exist without words to explain it.

 

[Zamurito]

Two of my fav quotes, though I can't find who authored them:

"A great teacher never strives to explain her vision; she simply invites you to stand beside her and see for yourself."

"The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make straight your hooks and nothing can hold you. Stop your routine of acquisitiveness, your habit of looking for results and the freedom of the universe is yours. Be effortless."