"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."
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Knowledge
Without Self Knowledge
Mystery of Life
"Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life."
No-Mind is the Real Way to Live
"Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real...
A Dead Life
"The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life."
The Modern Mind
"The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows."
Unlearning
"It's not a question of learning much... On the contrary. It's a question of unlearning much."
Poets
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Knowledge
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Seeking the Water
"Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty."