Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.