As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.