But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.