Tao Te Ching

“This mine, mine and me, me was my friend's terrible prison, a dungeon without windows or doors. 'Do you know the highest peak a man can reach? It is to conquer the self, the ego. When we reach that peak, and only then, Angelos, we shall be saved.'”

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