If your fear becomes a wordless darkness you avoid . . . you open yourself to further attacks of fear...

If your fear becomes a wordless darkness you avoid . . . you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
"Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. . . . But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater."
"Isn't telling about something—using words, English or Japanese—already an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?"