For I will tell you my own experience: before looking for my Teacher I began to have the faculty of seeing developed. It is that which gives the desire to seek for a Teacher, for the Teacher can give the explanation of life. I did not tell my Teacher about this faculty. For I was too impressed, too respectful to say what I could see and hear. But one day, after association with my Teacher, I ventured to speak about it. And what was his answer? "I am sorry." I was expecting a word of encouragement. Following to it, he said:"it is not seeing or hearing, it is to acknowledge it that hinders one's progress."