This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.