Experienced truth makes you not knowledgeable, but humble.
OSHO
So I say again: the popes, the bishops, the shankaracharyas -- they are not doing intentionally any crime. They are fast asleep; they cannot do anything intentionally! They are living an unconscious life. Their words are beautiful -- they have collected them from beautiful sources -- but the words have not grown within their being. The words are not part of their life. They are as ignorant as the people they are teaching.
Socrates used to say that there is a knowledge which is ignorant, and there is an
Socrates used to say that there is a knowledge which is ignorant, and there is an
ignorance which is knowledge.
Borrowed knowledge is ignorance.
Borrowed knowledge is ignorance.
Experienced truth makes you not knowledgeable, but humble. The more you know it, the less you claim to know it. The day you know it perfectly, you can only say, "I am utter ignorance. I am just a child, collecting seashells on the beach. I know nothing." "I do not know," can only be said by a man who knows perfectly.
The people who say, "We know," are utterly ignorant people -- but their memories are full. And those memories are dead, because they have not given birth to any experience of their own.
Beyond Psychology
The people who say, "We know," are utterly ignorant people -- but their memories are full. And those memories are dead, because they have not given birth to any experience of their own.
Beyond Psychology
Chapter #3
Chapter title: Just counting other people's cows
13 April 1986 pm in
Chapter title: Just counting other people's cows
13 April 1986 pm in
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