Take The Leap! You Cannot

There Is Another More Subtle Way In Which The Innocence Of Childhood Is Lost: When The Child Is Infected With The Desire To Become Somebody. Contemplate The Crowds Of People Who Are Striving Might And Main To Become, Not What Nature Intended Them To Be- Musicians, Cooks, Mechanics, Carpenters, Gardeners, Inventors- But "somebody": To Become Successful, Famous, Powerful; To Become Something That Will Bring Not Quiet And Self-fulfillment, But Self-glorification And Self-expansion

Wouldn't It Be Wonderful If We Had A World Where Everybody Said, 'we Don't Know?' The Fact Is That You're Surrounded -god And You Don't See God, Because You Know About God. The Final Barrier To The Vision Of God Is Your God Concept. You Miss God Because You Think You Know. The Highest Knowledge Of God Is To Know God As Unknowable. All Revelations, However Divine, Are Never Any More Than A Finger Pointing At The Moon. As We Say In The East, 'when The Sage Points To The Moon, All The Idiot Sees Is The Finger'.

The Seeker Says, "i Do Not Know." That Takes Honesty. The Master Says, "i Do Not Know." That Takes A Mystic's Mind That Knows Things Through Non-knowing. The Disciple Says, "i Know." That Takes Ignorance, In The Form Of Borrowed Knowledge.

The Feigning Sleeper Can Delude Others He Cannot Delude Himself. The False Mystic, Unfortunately, Can Delude Both Others And Himself.

These Things Will Destroy The Human Race: Politics Without Principle, Progress Without Compassion, Wealth Without Work, Learning Without Silence, Religion Without Fearlessness And Worship Without Awareness.