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Up then, noble soul! Put on thy jumping shoes which are intellect and love, and overleap the worship of thy mental powers, overleap thine understanding and spring into the heart of God.

Jack was never very healthy, and because he was always suffering from one ailment or another his family used to joke about the great risk a mosquito took in biting him …

Audiences offer themselves
human sacrifices to
be immolated to
the whimsical will
of arts’ directors

God, I’ve relapsed
I watched television
I enjoyed it,
I laughed and
even thought … something’s
wrong with me

One day Harding stumbled upon a drawing by the philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach. It was a self-portrait – but a self-portrait with a difference. Most self-portraits are what the artist looks like from several feet – she looks in a mirror and draws what she sees there. But Mach had drawn himself without using a mirror – from his own point of view.

The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one and the same - one in seeing, one in knowing, one in loving.

The benefit of hindsight, beforehand

One lives alone

I admit a God in every crevice,
But not bats in my room