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Wisdom comes from reflection upon the results of Experience, in the search
for happiness.
When the mind has sounded the depths of its resources, and the urge forward
can not be appeased, when the voice of the inner self--the soul, cannot be
silenced; the disciple pauses to ask _the way_. He wants to know what it is
all about, and why it is that all he has so striven and struggled for fails
to satisfy. He wants to know how to avoid pain; and how to find the most
direct road to that satisfaction which endures; and which is not synonymous
with the so-called "pleasures" of the senses.
When this stage of development has been reached, the disciple is ready for
another phase of Experience which shall extend his consciousness into
those areas of knowledge, in which the Real is distinguishable from the
Illusory.
Experience will then teach him that only Love is real.
That which is for the permanent good of all, as opposed to that which is
transitory and only seemingly satisfying to the few, may be said to
constitute the perception of the Real, and the avoidance of Illusion.
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