You Must Go

“You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,

You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know

You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess

You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not

You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.”

T.S. Eliot, East Coker