Tao Te Ching

“Very few people, living or dead, have aided my struggle... The first for me, was the peaceful, brilliantly luminous eye, like the sun's disk which illuminated the entire universe with its redemptive splendor; Buddha, the bottomless jet-dark eye in which the world drowned and was delivered.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco