In order to arrive

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