Chapter 5. Showing how Meditation differs from Study
Chapter 5.
Showing how Meditation differs from Study The student's life looks like meditation, but it varies from it.
Meditation and study differ in three ways.
1. They differ in their nature. Study is a work of the brain, meditation of the heart; study sets the imagination on work, meditation sets the affection on work.
2. They differ in their design. The design of study is concept, the design of meditation is piety — the design of study is to discover a truth; the design of meditation is spiritual improvement by a truth — the one searches for the vein of gold; the other digs it out.
3. They differ in the product and result. Study never leaves a man one whit the better; it is like a winter sun that has little warmth and influence: meditation leaves one in a more holy frame; it melts the heart when it is frozen, and it makes it drip into tears of love.