In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.

I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing.""It's insane, " he says, but without vehemence."It's faith, " I say.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.