"But his being such a great poet has prevented him from seeing that there can be anything higher than this. His intelligence has become a barrier, not a bridge. It is a strange case.

"But even without any experience of the ultimate, his words are so beautiful that I can give the meaning and content to his beautiful, but empty, words. I can see where he has missed and why he has missed – he has missed because of his great intelligence. He has missed because of his great creativity, his sensibility, his art of playing with beautiful words and arranging them in such a way that they carry at least some semblance, some similarity to the real, awakened consciousness.

Then said a teacher, Speak to us of Teaching.
And he said:
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

"All that is great, magnificent, absolutely true, nobody can give to you because it is not a commodity. You cannot purchase it in the market, nor can you be taught it in the universities. It lies already half asleep within your own self.

"So what you are seeking is not somewhere else. The seeker himself is the sought. The archer himself is the target. All that you need is not more knowledge but more awareness, so that which is asleep in you is no longer asleep. God is nothing but another name of your awakening.

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Why does he say half asleep? – because the question is coming from a teacher: Speak to us of Teaching. It is coming out of sincerity; otherwise the teacher would not ask, 'Teach us about teaching,' because that shows that he does not know what teaching is, and yet he has been pretending to be a teacher.

"A question needs courage, to expose yourself in your nudity. The teacher is not a man who is afraid of exposing his ignorance about his own profession. Usually the teachers, the professors, hide their ignorance in all kinds of borrowed knowledge. They never ask a sincere question."