Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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