I have The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) lying beside my desk. Every day I pick it up with the intention of reading a bit. The page that is folded has an opening line about the mind’s effort at understanding being the very reason why I don’t understand the core of life. So I never get past that point of reading :)
Understanding does not happen with or through words.
The Real Work
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
(by Wendell Berry, from Collected Poems, 1987)
