"I took the lamp and, leaving the zone of everyday occupations and
relationships where everything seems clear, I went down into my
innermost self, to the deep abyss whence I feel dimly that my power of
action emanates. But as I moved further and further away from the
conventional certainties by which social life is superficially
illuminated, I became aware that I was losing contact with myself. At
each step of the descent a new person was disclosed within me of whose
name I was no longer sure, and who no longer obeyed me. And when I had
to stop my exploration because the path had faded from beneath my steps,
I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and out of it came--arising I
know not from where--the current which I dare to call my life."
— Teilhard de Chardin
A Fire Dragon living in The Year of the Dragon.
