At the outset do not be too worried about this big question – Truth.
It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst – a thirst that from the soul must rise! – is the fervent longing, are the be-all and end-all. What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
In this very elusiveness is brought out his second great characteristic – steadfastness of purpose. Unless from the start the limitations incident to our frail human faculties are frankly accepted, nothing but disappointment awaits you.
The truth is the best that you can get with your best endeavour, the best that the best men accept – with this you must learn to be satisfied, retaining at the same time with due humility an earnest desire for an ever larger portion. Only by keeping the mind plastic and receptive does the student escape perdition.
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