“We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.”
“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”
“Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.”
“We are consciousness wanting to expand.”
“Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them.”
“We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar images of power and expand them until they become big enough to encompass the divine.”