I Don't Pray So That I Can

I Now See That I Spent Most Of My Life In Doing Neither What I Ought Nor What I Liked.

The Salvation Of A Single Soul Is More Important Than The Production Or Preservation Of All The Epics And Tragedies In The World.

There Seems To Be Hardly Any One Among My Acquaintance From Whom I Have Not Learned.

This Is Our Dilemma--either To Taste And Not To Know Or To Know And Not To Taste--or, More Strictly, To Lack One Kind Of Knowledge Because We Are In An Experience Or To Lack Another Kind Because We Are Outside It. [. . .] Of This Tragic Dilemma Myth Is The Partial Solution. In The Enjoyment Of A Great Myth We Come Nearest To Experiencing As A Concrete What Can Otherwise Be Understood Only As An Abstraction.

At The End Of All Things, The Blessed Will Say, 'we Never Lived Anywhere But In Heaven.'