PARADOX

By T.S. Elliot

A) In order to arrive at what you do not know, You must go by the way which is the way of Ignorance.

B) In order to possess what you do not possess, You must go by the way of Dis-possession.

C) In order to arrive at what you are, You must go through the way that you are not.

D) And what you do not know, is the only thing that you know.

E) And what you own, is what you do not own.

F) And where you are, is where you are not.

That thou mayest have pleasure in everything

Seek pleasure in nothing.

That thou mayest know everything

Seek to know nothing.

That thou mayest possess all things,

Seek to possess nothing.

That thou mayest be everything,

Seek to be nothing.

St. John of the Cross