“Mother-love is the greatest blessing and the greatest peril in life.”

Recognising both the gift and the risk of deep attachment · Autobiography, The Locomotive-God

• Love
• Motherhood
• Peril

“We are human from the start. We do not need to see a man die to know death. Death is born with our birth.”

On the innate human awareness of mortality · Autobiography, The Locomotive-God

• Consciousness
• Death
• Humanity