The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.