Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.
What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
Either you will be you or you will not be at all.
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.