"My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope."
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"The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ."
"Heaven is a state of mind, not a location."
"There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source."
"I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone."
"The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things."
"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven."
"He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven."
"Heaven gives its favourites-early death."
"Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory"
"There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love."
"The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it."
"O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight."
"He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life."
"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . ."
"What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow."
"What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'"
"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."
"I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given."
"In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end."