Truth in a Nutshell

We Learn by Doing

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
_{Eartha Kitt}

Not many years ago I began to play the cello. Most people would say that what I am doing is “learning to play” the cello. But these words carry into our minds the strange idea that there exist two very different processes: (1) learning to play the cello; and (2) playing the cello. They imply that I will do the first until I have completed it, at which point I will stop the first process and begin the second. In short, I will go on “learning to play” until I have “learned to play” and then I will begin to play. Of course, this is nonsense. There are not two processes, but one. We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.
_{John Holt, Chicken Soup for the Soul}

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Any time we devote to meditation, howsoever imperfect that meditation may be, is to our credit…. Automatically quality comes with quantity. If we don’t start, we will never learn to walk. If we start, then naturally we fall also, we get bruises also. But as long as we get up again and start walking again, we will ultimately learn.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Spiritual Perspectives, Vol II}