divine / godlike / sacred / miraculous

note; comment; annotation

note / annotation / comment

used / secondhand

old acquaintance

irritated

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds

If one learns without thinking, one will be lost in his learning. That is, if one does not think about what one learns, he will not arrive at the truth of it.

cover / suffocate / obstruct

indications