Discussions about this subject often end in intellectual debates, but this subject can only be poked or prodded with words. There is a silent knowledge or knowing, based only on profound experience, that is attainable but it can never be attained through intellectual discussion.
So as stimulating to the mind as these discussions are, they pale alongside silent knowledge. There are countless ways to gain this experience. The result is far beyond knowledge, but deep immersion into the power of it. Knowledge of something is not the thing itself. It is just some knowledge about the thing. When we speak of states of being, the knowledge doesn't take us anywhere at all, even if it were as correct as the intellect could muster. Only knowing from experience holds any power.
Just something to ponder maybe,
John
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