Words truly do not teach.  True knowing comes from life experience, and that is the reason that we are all continually engaging in life experience.  But we offer these words, that they might stimulate your thinking, that through your thoughts, you may draw life experience that will bring you to a clearer understanding or to more knowing.Truly, a teacher is a stimulator of thought.  Seeking a beginning place is not an easy thing to do, for each of us is at a different point of understanding. 

There is not a specific order to learning or to growth.  Each of us, at our current point of understanding or from our current perspective, set our thoughts into motion, and they attract life experience -- and from that  life experience we draw our knowing.