Meditation in a Toolshed: Outside Reading

I really enjoyed reading C.S. Lewis's essay called Meditation in a Toolshed. In this essay, Lewis explains the significance between looking at things and looking along things. I find it interesting that what inspired him to think this and write was because he saw a sunbeam while standing in his dark toolshed. Anyway, Lewis makes the point that we must stop trying to explain something without actually experiencing what we are trying to explain. Which is true; we often try to explain what we think we know about something, instead of just waiting to find out for ourselves:

In fact, we must take each case on its merits. But we must start with no prejudice for or against either kind of looking. We do not know in advance whether the lover or the psychologist is giving the more correct account of love, or whether both accounts are equally correct in different ways, or whether both are equally wrong. We just have to find out. But the period of brow-beating has got to end (Lewis 3).

There's no true meaning behind a thought until you are actually inside the experience.