Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

An idealist is one, who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, decides that it will also make a better soup.

The crude complacency of imagining divinity as embodied in words and letters alone puts humanity to shame ( Read more... )

The essence of faith is the awareness of the vastness of infinity ( Read more... )

Evolution follows a path of ascent and thus provides the world with a basis for optimism.

From a radical perspective, evil originates in divine thought, which eliminates waste before emanating goodnes. The demonic is rooted in the divine.

The essence of divinity is in everything - nothing but it exists.