But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.