The Secret Scripture
"As a plant becomes pot-bound man becomes ego-bound enclosed in his own limited mental attachments. Then he can't feel any more or love, or rejoice or even grieve any more, he is ego-bound, pot-bound in the pot of his own conceit, and he can only slowly die. Unless he is a sturdy plant. Then he can burst the pot, shell of his ego and get his roots in earth again, raw earth." -- DH Lawrence