Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
T. S. EliotWhat we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. EliotNot less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
T. S. EliotWe die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
T. S. Eliot