It is by metaphor that language grows.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.