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Essence of World Religions
experienced in his heart? Can God be put into words? He finally gave them a formula - inaccurate, inadequate - in the hope that some might be tempted to experience it for themselves. They seized upon the formula. They made it sacred text. They imposed it on others as a holy belief. They went to great pains to spread it in foreign lands. Some even gave their lives for it.
The mystic was sad. It might have been better if he had said nothing.
The Zen Master says: "The one who knows does not say. The one who says does not know."
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