What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

So wise souls, leaving self behindmove forward,and setting self asidestay centered.Why let the self go?To keep what the soul needs.

Fakat güç, sadece ihtiyaç olduğunda ortaya çıkmaz: Bilgi de olması gerekir

Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another man. In our shame is our glory. Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it.

Fortune-telling and love-potions are not of much account, but old women are worth listening to.

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.""You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]"But I came far. Miles can be years.

They mingle their life with the world,they mix their mind up with the world.Ordinary people look after them.Wise souls are children.