Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.