There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
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They knew a tremendous number of things - But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?
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