- Do you really think you can learn something by reading a book?
I see you coming. But you’re right. No, in fact, you can’t really “learn” something. A book just provides a setting, an intellectual journey. It can put you in the right frame of mind, bring you to the door of an experience. But it is not the experience.
- So what’s missing?
Who knows? An inner influence, a magical encounter between your desire and your need. That little extra that will crystallize a level in you and add a stone to your building.
***- Here you are again playing the poet. But otherwise what is the use of a book?
In the area that interests us, the meaning of life, only to reinforce certainties, themselves resulting from conditioning.
- But your free will?
To have true free will you would already have to have an active personality.