What do you mean it's been a long time before you know it?

I have failed to enlighten myself for many years, and the truth described by the sages has not yet been realized.

"If the road is long, it will happen unconsciously" comes from Wang Xizhi's "Avenue Post". Wang Xizhi (303-36 1) was an important calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was known as the "book saint". Langya Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong) people.