“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”

“You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.”

“If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”

“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.”

“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”