Page 3 - Sincerity and Religion

Sometimes one may read a whole book

of philosophy and not progress a step

farther. Sometimes one may be quite a

fervent devotee of a religion and not

progress. There are people who have

spent entire lifetimes seated in

contemplation and attained nothing.

There are people (we have well-known

examples) who used to do the most

modest of manual works, like a cobbler

mending old shoes, and who had an

experience. It is altogether beyond

what one thinks and says of it. It is a

gift, that’s all. And all that is needed is

to be that — to succeed in identifying

oneself with it and live it.

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