Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense.
That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.