Mm

...

the true character of the person who's speaking.

So all of that has to be added in.

Then the other last piece of it is there's a great subtlety to spiritual progress which has to do with, with, well, the grace of God is how it's always been described, but it has to do with concentration and attunement.

You can't just do a little bit of everything and then really become dynamically strong.

At a certain point, you have to concentrate.

Mm.

[laughs]

It was also 1965 when the whole American society was just coming apart and I was right in the middle of it.

Um, and as soon as I got to Stanford, I sort of held out thinking if I got to a, a great university, I would actually discover wisdom.

And in the first two weeks, I discovered knowledge, but I did not discover wisdom.

I had ...

It was very clear to me very quickly that my teachers had no more of a clue than I did about what life was about.

So as it happened at that time, the Grateful Dead was just forming and they formed right here.

Mm-hmm