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"No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin."
"I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven."
"I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE."
"Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?"
"There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love."
"Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
"We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven."
"His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."
"The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began."
"Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it."
"One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent."
"The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom."
"Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven."
"There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience."
"We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere."
"You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father."
"Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope."
"Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse."
"If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go."
"In heaven it is always autumn."
