All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

I won't sleepif that's what it takesto not wake upas myself

When I read something by someone... I like to dive in his world as much as possible.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.