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“Be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater”

“The water was shot through with what looked like white roots; briefly, a great celestial tree stood in the ocean… For two, perhaps three seconds, a gigantic, blinding white shard of glass from a broken cosmic window danced in the sky, insubstantial yet overwhelmingly powerful”

“I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness—how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!"

“The sea lay quietly, bathed in a shy, light-footed light, a dancing play of black and silver that extended without limits all about me… my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still.”

“…it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it... You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”

“. . . in humans, animals, trees, in a handful of earth, for everything has a trace of the divine in it. . . 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.”

“Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core.”