Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different.
The last is the worship of God in innumerable forms. Each is a symbol that points to something beyond; and as none exhausts God’s actual nature, the entire array is needed to complete the picture of G...
Religion arose out of celebration and its opposite, bereavement, both of which cry out for collective expression.
And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all… That God was Man in Palestine And lives today in Bread and Wine. (John Betjeman, Christman)
To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it.
The Transcendent was my morning meal, we had the Eternal at lunch, and I ate a slice of the Infinite at dinner.
The Infinite discloses itself, as much of itself as our finite minds can comprehend, by building the universal grammars of language and religion into our brains. We did not create those grammars; they...
I am become death, the shatterer of worlds; Waiting that hour that ripens to their doom. This
Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.
If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.