In the beginning was the myth.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.