To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.