Concepts are hooks screwed into the sides of the surrounding mountains.
When you nourish them, you strengthen and tighten the ropes that bind you to these hooks.
No matter how noble and complex these concepts may be, once you have a relationship with them, they make it difficult for you to descend to the bottom of the lake of consciousness in which you find yourself.
Beliefs are a form taken by concepts; their strong emotional component often makes them appear to be an internal phenomenon.
In reality, the anchor that beliefs offer is on the side of the mountain and not planted in the rocks at the bottom of the lake.
True belief is not a concept, and the surface activity of the mind is not a belief but a recognition,
True belief is knowledge.
The true believer does not say « I believe, »
he says « I know. »
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