“I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.”
“I know I am wise. [But] I’m not the beginning and end of wisdom.”
“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”
“I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.”
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.”
“Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.”