To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead. - Alan Watts

And if I forget how many times I have been here,
and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1

The heaven and earth afford me no shelter at all; I’m glad, unreal are body and soul. Welcome thy weapon, O warrior of Yuen! Thy trusty steel, That flashes lightning, cuts the wind of Spring, I feel.