“When the child grows up, becoming a youth or a maiden, it enters into a struggle with existence, with worldliness. It becomes like a swimmer setting out to cross a turbulent river. Individuals try to mould the world to their own way of thinking. but the world fights back, and in so doing shapes each one into an image differing from its own conception, To each person the Earth takes on a different aspect, according to individual thoughts and inclinations.”
The Kolbrin, Book of Lucius (LUC:13:1)