One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.