"The attainment of transcendent insight is the real object of the training advocated in the traditional Oral Teachings, which do not consist, as so many imagine, in teaching certain things to the pupil, in revealing to him certain secrets, but rather in showing him the means to learn them and discover them for himself."
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Quoted in Alexandra David Néel: The Life and Work of an Early Romancer of Tibet, Iván Kovács, Esoteric Quarterly, (Winter 2014)
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