The Bowl of Saki Commentary

For only such possess all powers, faculties, and gifts-yet in doing so they possess nothing. Possessions are burdens that impede progress. Possessions are blocks that prevent the free flow of energy, hindering the electricity of life from flowing freely through the veins of nature. There can be no pretense here, neither the desire to give nor to receive. Freedom is necessary and freedom is impossible when one is not free from thoughts.

The master of thought does not "think" in the ordinary sense of the term, nor love in the ordinary sense. What thought may come through one, what love may pass through one, is the natural concomitant of one's life and realization. Of this it is impossible to say much in words.