And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.