You are at enmity with yourself.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing.

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

You never cared enough to be Black

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.