“Something long range is taking place; in each individual — sometimes — behind the mask of this foolish person, this foolish lifetime, we see the Bodhisattva-figure who is both brilliance and compassion working for all beings. In all of us.”

— Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold, 1969

“Everyone babbles about God but I saw God this morning just as
The bus slowed down for the stop at Maple Street. God was six
Girls and one boy with a bright green and purple stegosaurus hat.”

— Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder, 2019

“And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness.”

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, 1670