There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.
There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.
We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.