That's your gratitude for the way he feeds you and spares you!
The mind spreads and soars in proportion as the body feeds on the surrounding world.
He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.
It feeds on the fallen fruit of this tree by tearing off the husk, fibre by fibre; and it always begins at that end where the three eye-like depressions are situated.