Is willing to learn a skill?

Only when the mind is straightened out and says―I am willing to learn, will the truth and the Christ-child be born in the heart―and only after its birth will the mind recognise it and father it. First the mind must recognise and seek, then the heart will bring forth when the time comes. It is true that all earnest, sincere desire to penetrate the mysteries of life is an instinct of the soul born in us from the heart―or it is our recognition in a vague, mystic way of this great broadcasting of the mystic wisdom of all ages.

―The Teacher