Nature produces many gems more beautiful than diamonds, emeralds, rubies, pearls, and opals, but we have all been brainwashed to value only those that men price the highest, in the very same way that men place psychological price tags on religion and on art, expecting the rest of the world to follow.

You would not be less of what you are by hanging a roadside pebble round your neck or for turning your back on any man-made religion.