'Turn Your Own Lights On'
*"I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t a pleasant one; it doesn’t sweeten and console as a story ought to. It has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams—like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
A man has to pass through many stages before he reaches wisdom. He has to work his way through errors, through sin, through fanaticism, through lazy, sleepy indifference, through passionate love of good and equally passionate love of evil. Some people get stuck at one of these stages; some get through them all; only a few push on to the summit.
I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul. All I can give you is the opportunity, the impulse, the key. I help you to make your own world visible. That is all."*
