In this very body, five to six feet in length, with its sense-impressions, thoughts, and ideas, lies the world, the origin of the world, the ending of the world, and likewise the way that leads to the cessation of the world

Aṅguttara Nikāya (300 BCE-100 CE), The Aṅguttara Nikāya (aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.