“Master,” said the disciple. “Is there life after death?”
“Why do you ask?” said the master.
“I was just thinking how horrible it would be not to love or laugh or sing or dream,” said the disciple.
The master laughed. “Most people don’t even do those things before death. Or if they do, they do them only superficially. [...]

We consider bibles and religions divine–
I do not say they are not divine,
I say they have all grown out of you,
and may grow out of you still,
It is not they who give the life,
it is you who give the life.
Leaves are no more shed from the trees,
or trees from the earth,
than they are shed out [...]