Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
Alexandra David-NeelNature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
Alexandra David-NeelGuard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
Alexandra David-Neel