That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

I don't want to hold you hand!

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.