And then there is another stage of expansion, and that is trying to look at everything from another's point of view also, trying to think also as the other person thinks. This is not an easy thing because from one's childhood one learns to think so that one stands upon one's own thought. One does not move to another's thought. The very fact that one has a thought oneself, keeps one to it. It is therefore a sign of expansion to be able to see from the child's point of view, or from the point of view of the foolish person, how he looks at things.

And the most interesting thing there is only needs one to be tolerant in order to see from [the] point-of-view of another and to be patient. In that way one extends one's knowledge to such a degree that no reading can give that knowledge. Then you begin to get from all sources; from every plane you will attract knowledge as soon as the mind becomes so pliable that it not only sticks to its own point of view. In my books I have called it "unlearning".

In my books I have called it "unlearning". If you say, "This is a very nice person," and another person comes and says, "This is not a nice person, you are quite wrong," the general tendency is to stick to that idea. But the greater evolution is to see from his point-of-view also. He has a reason for it; maybe he is too unevolved to see, or he is more evolved, or less interested in the other person, or something. But by seeing from his point-of-view you do not lose your own; your own point-of-view is there. But the other point-of-view is added to yours. Therefore, your knowledge becomes greater.

It wants a great tolerance and it wants a greater stretching of the heart, and sometimes it pains when you stretch it. But by stretching the heart and by making it larger and larger, you turn out of your heart the sacred book.