Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

You are at enmity with yourself.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.