When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.