ourselves to the sought-for essence of a thinking that is not a willing.
Teacher: You are not only right, but by the gods! as I would say if they had not flown from us, you have uncovered something essential.
Scholar: I should now be tempted to say that you, in your interpretation of the ambiguous talk about non-willing, have surpassed both us and yourself—if anyone were entitled to mete out praise and if that were not contrary to the style of our conversations.
Scientist: That I succeeded in this, was not my doing but that of the night having set in, which without forcing compels concentration.
Scholar: It leaves us time for meditating by slowing down our pace.
Teacher: That is why we are still far from human habitation.
Scientist: Ever more openly I am coming to trust in the inconspicuous guide who takes us by the hand—or better said, by the word—in this conversation.
Scholar: We need this guidance, because our conversation becomes ever more difficult.
Teacher: If by "difficult" you mean the unaccustomed task which consists in weaning ourselves from will.
Scholar: Will, you say, and not merely willing . . .
Scientist: . . . and so, you state an exciting demand in a released manner.
Teacher: If only I possessed already the right releasement, then I would soon be freed of that task of weaning.
Scholar: So far as we can wean ourselves from willing, we contribute to the awakening of releasement.