The Inheritor - Pg 185

   "A man came to one of the great Incarnations of Buddha, and said, 'I have spent ten years in fasting and prayer, and lo, I have learned to levitate myself over the river.' And the Buddha said, 'Foolish man, you have spent ten years in learning to do what the ferryman would have done for a penny, which you could earn by an hour of honest labor; and behold in those ten years you could have done much in this world to relieve the suffering of mankind.'"