One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.