The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
Interpretation
The greatest experiences and truths often surpass our ability to articulate them.
This quote by Adi Shankara suggests that the most profound truths and treasures of existence lie beyond verbal expression and intellectual understanding. It implies that there are experiences, such as spiritual or existential insights, that are so deep and significant that they elude our capacity to fully comprehend or describe them through language.
In practice
In a speech about the nature of love, one might reference this quote to illustrate the idea that some feelings go beyond what we can articulate.
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
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