The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.