[34] Brahmin, this thought occurred to me: 'Whatever ascetics or brahmins with minds of ill will (byāpāda), with corrupt intentions in mind, resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets—because of the defect of their minds of ill will and corrupt intentions, those worthy ascetics and brahmins surely summon up unwholesome fear and dread. But I do not resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets with a mind of ill will and corrupt intentions in mind; I am one whose mind is imbued with loving-kindness (mettā). Whatever noble ones, with minds imbued with loving-kindness, resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets—I am one of them.' Brahmin, clearly seeing in myself this state of a mind imbued with loving-kindness, I attained even greater assurance for dwelling in the forest.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.