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Quotation from Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven) by Wu Cheng'en
“From the heart come all sorts of evil spirits. By the heart you can overcome them.”
Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter XIII, trans. Timothy Richard (1913)
The monk's words to five hundred priests as he sets out, which state the novel's teaching that the demons of the road are also struggles of the mind.
Citation: "From the heart come all sorts of evil spirits. By the heart you can overcome them." — Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter XIII, trans. Timothy Richard (1913). (id journey-to-the-west-a-mission-to-heaven-q6)
Portrait: Xiyou, Anonymous, Public domain.
