I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.