“We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.”

“To be worth making at all, a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.”

“He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment. Since these several minds tended to form a sum total or complex more mongrel than homogeneous, The Situation must necessarily appear to a single observer much like a diagram in four dimensions to an eye conditioned to seeing its world in only three.”

“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.”

“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...”

“...what do all the objects in the world have in common if not the fact of being- and of being nothing but- the provisional permanence of certain changes.”