Any representation of God produces accordingly.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.