I often had the experience that a mureed, having read a certain idea, a teaching, in a book four times or five times, only understood the meaning fully when I told him. Telling him once was more helpful to him than if he had read the same idea fifty times over. The letters on the paper sometimes reach as far as the eyes, but the word coming from the soul reaches the soul. Therefore that which is learned by the phenomenon of reflection is of greater value than learning in any other form, especially in the spiritual line.