Yes – the destination is not half as fun as the path itself

Often we think "Can I use this?" and if we can't at that exact moment we dismiss it, but we can often find a number of other sources to use those energies – like as creative outputs for example. Nothing should go to waste and no experience is ever 'irrelevant' in the grand scheme of things.

Isn't it interesting how the journey and experience from our search for truth take on greater importance than the destination itself? I like your point on "how ELSE can I use this?". That's a part I tend to skip after asking the first question!

I often feel the detachment from experience as an attachment to an idea rather than being open to the actual experience. Having a pragmatic mindset helps me avoid clinging onto descriptions and to find the essence instead.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Early on I exploring different perspectives I found the primary location of truth to be within myself. Logic was one test. Sometimes failed, leaving me with a question only answered deep within myself: Is this true?

Early on, I found truth and love eternally conjoined. An oxymoron supported by the belief in duality/non-duality. Resolved only by delusion.

I came to the conclusion the only reality is experience. Without direct transmission as in shaktipat you can only know, sense, my experience when I describe it to you. The description is a symbolic representation removed from the experience.

If what I say makes sense to you, you might say I understand what I'm describing. But the description is never the experience.

As the saying goes:
"You can know what you think, but you can't think what you know."

Shifting the panorama from the ephemeral scope of true/untrue to a passionate detachment of comfortable/uncomfortable may be more productive in your pragmatism.

For me, satchitananda sums it up in a way which I never can explain or understand. I just know.

Thanks for the article.