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“there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus. Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognizably human; they created religions at the same time as they created works of art. This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces; these early faiths expressed the wonder and mystery that seem always to have been an essential component of the human experience of this beautiful yet terrifying world.”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

“Thomas expresses what would become a central theme of Jewish—and later Christian—mysticism a thousand years later: that the “image of God” is hidden within everyone”
― Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience; it is the ability to see again what most of us have forgotten how to see”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step.” This experiential process involves the capacity to hold the emotion in abeyance”
― Peter A. Levine, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness