To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.