The worst possible relationship between humans and some mystically potent being or beings, at least the worst that I can imagine, would be not symbiosis but parasitism.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything

Consider also:

  1. “Analyze your own abilities and find what you are best fitted to do. Then get about the task of doing your chosen work to the very best of your ability, and do not for an instant doubt your own capabilities.”
  2. “Lighthouse keepers were once warned they shouldn’t listen to the sea for too long; likewise, you could hear voices in the static and lose your mind.”
  3. Vathek
  4. “Oh, my,” she said, her heart racing. “You are a bad little kitty.”
  5. “A fairy!” hooted the centaur, throwing back his head and laughing wildly. “Why in the name of Pan would anyone ever waste their time on those silly little pests!