Once you put river into a bucket, it stops being a river.

You can get someone to teach you things mechanical or scientific or mathematical like algebra or english or riding a cycle or operating a computer but in the things that really matter - life, love, truth, god, no one can teach you a thing. All they can give you is formulas. If you take those formulas you will have not reality, but reality filtered though the mind of someone else. Not truth but someone else's version of it. This applies even to your own formulas. Which will offer you not reality but reality filtered through a mind conditioned by past experience all that the mind can offer is concepts that make sense to the mind whereas reality makes no sense to the mind at all it is beyond the thought it is a mystery and so it must be grasped if it can be grasped at all beyond sort and beyond formulas.

It is only in this silence that you will see. And the moment you see the sheer concreteness and wholeness and fluidity of what you see will cause you to abandon every concept which can only portrait reality in an abstract fragmented static kind of way. in that moment of sight you will also drop every formula and book and guide and guru.

When you can't describe a powerful experience in words anymore, it's a sign of progress.

I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind

Music is wordless. Nevertheless, it is an expression of movement and creates in the listener the expression of being "moved." The wordlessness of music is generally considered either a sign of mystical spirituality or of deepest emotion incapable of being expressed in words.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.

The majority of us are not brawlers, wife-beaters, or murderers. We are not uncontrollably driven by brutal instincts and are shocked and alarmed by others who are. Yet each of us is capable of hostile thoughts and hostile acts. We know what it means to "kill with a look" or wound someone's feelings with intent.