“Just as water vapor rises from lakes and streams, from the oceans and the land itself, gathering into great clouds in the sky, just so the forces now massing will gather together, coalescing and growing dark until they resolve themselves in a storm.
“To wait for that storm to arrive, training your eyes anxiously upon the horizon, is not to understand what a storm is and what it means. A storm is not something that happens to you, but something that happens through you. The wind and your being are one.
“Fear is a modern invention that has its genesis in the separation of living beings and the land. This is the sum of all the knowledge and the substance of all that you have forgotten. My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear?”