​”In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”

Robert Anton Wilson

As Rainer Maria Rilke has written, translated by Robert Bly in The Winged Energy of Delight:

“Take your well disciplined strengths and stretch them between two opposing poles. Because inside human beings is where God learns.”