From Lilith by George MacDonald
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then? I said, feeling naked and very worthless. Will you be so good as to show me the nearest way home? There are more ways than one I know, for I have gone by two already. There are indeed many ways. Tell me please! How to recognize the nearest. I cannot answer the raven. You and I use the same words with different meanings. We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said. Home is ever so far away in the palm of your hand, and how to get there. It is of no use to tell you. But you will get there. You must get there. You have to get there. Everybody who is not at home has to go home. You thought you were at home when I found you. If that had been your home, you would not have left it, and nobody ever was, or ever will be at home without having gone there, Enigma treading on Enigma! I exclaimed. I did not come here to be asked riddles. No! But you came and found the riddles waiting for you. Indeed, you are yourself. The only riddle, what you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you were not true. Worse and worse! I cried. And you must answer the riddles, he continued. They will go on asking themselves until you understand yourself. The universe is a riddle trying to get out, and you were holding your door hard against it.