We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.