Carlos Castaneda
What may not be learned through rote, is the immediacy of life and the way to align with that through feeling.

We all know the story, of the wise man and the cup that could take no more tea, because it was full.

The path of becoming is a path of emptying ourselves, of our learning and opinions.

Just as we prune a tree, of what is not needed, so that in spring it will burst into blossom and fruit in the summer.

So the wise man looks carefully to what is extraneous to the upcoming time, what will weigh him down on his journey and cuts it away.

When the breezes of spring blow, he is light, his heart opens, his wings expand and he is aloft in the thermals of knowledge.