Buddha used to say: It is like a man who goes on counting other people's

 Buddha used to say: It is like a man who goes on counting other people's cows and buffaloes every day -- and he himself has no cow, no buffalo. Counting other people's cows and buffaloes you may become very expert in counting, you may become very reliable, but unless you have your own cow you will not be nourished by that counting. 

To know means to be silent, utterly silent, so you can hear the still, small voice within. 

To know means to drop the mind. When you are absolutely still, unmoving, nothing wavers in you, the doors open. You are part of this mysterious existence. You know it by becoming part of it, by becoming a participant in it. That is knowing. 

And once knowing has happened, then to read the holy scriptures are beautiful, because then they all become witnesses. Otherwise you can read, you can repeat, but they are only words with no meaning, with no content. 

Knowledge is without content, empty shells with nothing inside. But if you have seen only knowledge, from the outside both will look almost the same. Knowledge comes through studying and knowing happens  through meditation. The processes are different. In knowledge you have to go into words, into language, into scriptures. In knowing you have to go within yourself. The processes are not only different but polar opposites. 

In knowing, first you have to drop knowledge because that becomes a hindrance. First you have to know that "I don't know." You have to become innocent. 

Jesus says: Unless you are as innocent as  small children you will not enter into my kingdom of God. 

OSHO