what you most need
 
 to learn.
 
 "You're awfully quiet over there, Richard," said Shimoda, as though he wanted to talk with me.
 
 "Yeah," I said, and went on reading. If this was a book for masters only, I didn't want to let go of it.
 
 Live
 
 never to be
 
 ashamed if anything you do
 
 or say is published
 
 around the world even if
 
 what is published
 
 is not true.
 
 You are led
 
 through your lifetime
 
 by the inner learning creature,
 
 the playful Spiritual being
 
 that is your real self.
 
 Don't turn away
 
 from possible futures
 
 before you're certain you don't have
 
 anything to learn from them.
 
 You're always free
 
 to change your mind and
 
 choose a different future, or
 
 a different
 
 past.
 
 Choose a different past? Literally or figuratively or how did it mean . . . ? "I think my mind just boggled, Don. I don't know how I could possibly learn this stuff."
 
 "Practice. A little theory and a lot of practice," he said. "Take you about a week and a half."
 
 "A week and a half."
 
 "Yeah. Believe you know all answers, and you know all answers. Believe you're a master, and you are."
 
 "I never said I wanted to be any master."