Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

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.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.