Understanding something is quite different from knowing it–not unlike the difference between studying horticulture and cultivating your own garden. Knowing means thoughts are inessential to induce you to act; actions erupt from you spontaneously like oak from acorn.
It is the reason I keep repeating myself. The reason I keep coming up with new ways, new angles, new metaphors to illustrate importance concepts. Repetition, in particular mindful repetition, converts idle thought into active habit. The first time you hear something, it is like a vague imprint on a piece of clay–it lacks form and therefore manifest purpose. But as you listen to the same thing time and again, meaningful grooves and contours are carved into your working mind-masterpiece.
Knowing means not just taking in, but assimilating and acting out. It means that you deliberately cover new idea-seeds with layers of meaning. That you water them with reflection and germinate them with emotion. And one day when you least expect it and when you most need it, right action will, without effort, spring forth.
Choose to Take the Journey 
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