You should never be here too much; be so far away that they can’t find you, they can’t get at you to shape, to mould. Be so far away, like the mountains, like the unpolluted air; be so far away that you have no parents, no relations, no family, no country; be so far away that you don’t know even where you are. Don’t let them find you; don’t come into contact with them too closely. Keep far away where even you can’t find yourself . . .

—J. Krishnamurti-

Do not go far away, they say, as they bury me.
Where is far away if not where I am?

—Malik Ibn al-Rayb