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Chapter 18 - Teaching |
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said a teacher, "Speak to us of Teaching." |
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| And he said: No man can reveal to you aught but
that which already lies half asleep in the dawning
of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow
of the temple, among his followers, gives not of
his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the
house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the
threshold of your own mind. The astronomer may speak
to you of his under standing of space, but he cannot
give you his under standing. The musician may sing
to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he
cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm,
nor the voice that echoes it. And he who is versed
in the science of numbers can tell of the regions
of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you
thither. |
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| For the vision of one man lends not its wings
to another man. |
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| And even as each one of you stands alone in God's
knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his
knowledge of God and in his under standing of the
earth. |
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