於是一位教師說，請給我們講教授。
他說：
除了那已經半睡著，躺臥在你知識的曉光裡的東西之外，沒有人能向你啟示什麼。
那在殿宇的陰影裡，在弟子群中散步的教師，他不是在傳授他的智慧，而是在傳授他的忠信與仁慈。
假如他真是大智，他就不命令你進入他的智慧之堂，卻要引導你到你自己心靈的門口。
天文家能給你講述他對於太空的瞭解，他卻不能把他的瞭解給你。
音樂家能給你唱出那充滿太空的韻調，他卻不能給你那聆受韻調的耳朵和應和韻調的聲音。
精通數學的人能說出度量衡的方位，他卻不能引導你到那方位上去。
因為一個人不能把他理想的翅翼借給別人。
正如上帝對於你們每個人的瞭解都是不相同的，所以你們對於上帝和大地的見解也應當是不相同的。
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On Teaching
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 our knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.
