The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.
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There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.
Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind__sn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?