"If you are not totally ready for love, and existence opens all the mysteries of love to you, it will not give you joy, it will give you pain. It will not give you insight, it will blind you.

"When a blind man has an operation, for a few days he is still kept unaware of the light and the sun. His eyes remained covered with a blindfold. If the blind man who has been operated on is no longer blind and is suddenly told, 'Now you can go home. Now you can see the sun, the trees, the birds, the people you have been living with,' he will reach home with burned eyes, again blind. And the second operation is going to be far more difficult.

"Nature may be slow, but it is in your favor. It gives you only that which you can digest.

"Hence I say, Almustafa has come very close to some beautiful experiences, revelations. But he has not yet reached the target. His statements are true, but only fragmentarily. And I would like you to remember that a half-truth sometimes proves more dangerous than a lie, because one can be deceived by the half-truth for his whole life – nobody can be deceived by lies for that long.

"So I would like to make the truth complete, and indicate to you why I am saying it is only a half-truth.

And the weaver said, Speak to us of Clothes.

"This is the beauty of Kahlil Gibran, that he brings immense insight into very ordinary things. If you ask a philosopher about clothes he will laugh. He will say, 'Go to some weaver, or a tailor. Philosophy has nothing to do with the clothes.'

"But there is nothing in life which is unimportant. If it appears unimportant, it only means your perceptivity is not clear. The moment your perceptivity is clear, and your eyes are innocent, the smallest pebble on the shore becomes as mysterious as the greatest star in the sky – because they both belong to the same mystery.

And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

"This is a half-truth – because clothes were discovered by the unbeautiful, to hide it."