The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity…