The sure path can only lead to death.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.