Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.