You know, the teachings are not enough. They must be enlivened by Grace.  You can read the teachings. We read them in translation from the ancient texts, and you can read them for decades and never have a real experience.  You certainly will get understandings, aha moments, intellectual breakthroughs, but without any real depth.  The experience of your own Self is a feeling, not a thought.  It is a deep quality of beingness, not a….

—  Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Root of Meditation“