One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.