The fact that one has to approach truth systematically and unperturbed if one wants to realize oneself is illustrated by the boy leaning forward more and more in order to look better into his own eyes, and only when the king's son had come close enough to pure truth, that source of creative power, all his hair fell - without his doing - into the well and turned golden.

“This is how truth works: if only one turns enough towards it, one draws - and one cannot prevent it - the complete advantage of gilding oneis own complete life from it.