The Wisdom of Insecurity

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The principle theme of the Christ-story is that this 'express image' of God becomes the source of life in the very act of being destroyed.

Sometimes I call it the 'backwards law.' When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.

Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward—whether it be a 'good time' tomorrow or an everlasting life beyond the grave.

The more we are able to love another person and to enjoy his company, the greater must be our grief at his death, or in separation.

The ordinary agnostic, relativist, or materialist fails to reach this point because he does not follow his line of thought consistently to its end.

To discover the ultimate Reality of life the Absolute, the eternal, God—you must cease to try to grasp it in the forms of idols.

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot.

consciousness-the thing you call 'I' -is really a stream of experiences, of sensations, thoughts, and feelings in constant motion.

Yet the 'tablet' moves with the writing finger as the river flows along with the ripples, so that memory is like a record written on water... The difference between 'I' and 'me' is largely an illusion of memory.