Experience is the teacher that helps us embody and benefit from our intellectual realizations. Lessons we learn through experience stick with us and become part of our muscle memory and, eventually, new behavior. Mental recognition of a truth is very different from understanding it viscerally. That’s why meditation is so important. What we learn through deep silence is a knowing that is felt rather than simply thought of. This kind of awareness is impossible to learn second hand. That’s why the best place to gain a deep understanding of the world is inside yourself. All it requires is…
Looking within.
