In today’s world, knowledge is the “fork” that takes us to experiences and absorptions.
Knowledge is an instrument, a valuable one, but still just an instrument.
Wisdom to know the food apart from the fork is vital.

This is the difference between understanding the essence and the rites that are created for the sake of attaining certain experiences or states.
What nourishes is the food, not the fork.

The fork can be very useful, but it will never be more important than the food. We cannot get attached to the rites or “attires” and forget the essence.
The same thing happens with knowledge: it is important, but it is only valuable as an instrument, to lead us to something “else”.

As beautiful and attractive as it may seem, it will only have value when it is digested and, mainly, put into practice. Then it will no longer be knowledge, but energy transformed into wisdom, growth, inner power, resistance and perception.

To keep or give importance to rites or to the form in which knowledge is presented can be useful for many, but to give the right importance to the essence, independently of rite and form, is vital.
This small difference of attitude, between recognizing what is useful and what is vital, can help people to better accept themselves and to better accept groups or persons with methods different from theirs.

To learn how to read the essence, no longer reading the garments, is to set off convergence towards genuine spirituality which can make religious, philosophical, cultural groups or any groups live in harmony and with mutual assistance.

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Source: A Walk in the Garden of Wisdom, by Herbert Santos Silva
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