"Yes. I mean if you have been big and listened to its voice, and then stop. If you are less than yourself after you've been more, your soul won't stay."
"What do you do when your soul leaves you?"
"You walk the Black Path."
He looked a child seraph.
"That path is not interesting, is it?"
"No. You have got to know what it is, got to walk up it a little ways, so that you are not afraid of it any more. When you know a thing, you are not afraid of it any longer. Before you know, it looks all dark to you. Nothing can hurt you when you are not afraid.... It's just the same as with the animals. All the black things that come into you are animals. If they find nothing but love and whiteness inside, they will go away and not even look at you again; but if fear and darkness are there, they get mad and bite."
Leaning forward with a laugh, he added, "You can't cut across from the black path to the white. You've got to go all the way back and start over."