Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.