A man aproaches the Mullah:

"Nasrudin, why is it, that Allah does not talk to me like he does to others?"

"O sure He does" says Nasrundin "he uses your mistakes to tell you the way!"

"...did any of your students ever become enlightened?"
"Sure. many of them"
"How can you tell?"
"Easy. They stop following me or anyone else, do not talk ceaselessly about 'teachers', 'teachings', 'spirituality' and other such matters, and they go on with their lives free from fears and pretences."

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

Don Juan Matus as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

Each day an old man while beating a drum would sing out his stories of justice and peace. In spite of his neighbors ridicule he would not stop.

One day a young man yelled out to the old man:
“Why do you do this? No one is listening. No one is changing.”

He gently says to the young man:
“I do not do this to change you but to remind me of who I am.”