This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.