I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

Love is the only prayer I know.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.