violated by bloodshed and gluttony and pride and disdain. Say their Names.

Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because

Everyone's too sad for everything.

God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to...

Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.

This thing I'm doing can hardly be called living. Instead I'm lying dormant, like a bacterium in a glacier. Getting time over with. That's all.

You create your own world by your inner attitude, the Gardeners used to say.

One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people didn't have kings any more. He said he meant the centre of power, but today it...

You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst....

The answer can only be that God has given Adam free will, and therefore Adam may do things that God Himself cannot anticipate in advance.

The Human Words of God speak of the Creation in terms that could be understood by the men of old. There is no talk of galaxies or genes, for such terms would have confused them greatly! But must we...

She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisive, no nonsense.

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

Maybe that was the real Bernice, I thought - kind and innocent. Maybe she was truly like that inside, and all the fighting we used to do and all her sharp and unpleasant edges - that was her way of...

Just remember, dear Friends, What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got...

Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague

On one wall there was a recent watercolour - Saint E.O. Wilson of Hymenoptera

Dear Diplodicus; dear Pterosaur; dear Trilobite; dear Mastodon, dear Dodo, dear Great Auk, dear Passenger Pigeon, dear Panda, dear Whooping Crane; and all you countless others who have played in this...

Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.

But compassion takes work, and we were young.

The liver is evil and must be punished.

But we own nothing they want, so we don't qualify as terrorists.

It would be nice to believe that love should be dished out in a fair way so that everyone got some. But that wasn't how it was going to be for me.

on the Street of Dreams it was dream eat dream.

Thus on Predator Day we meditate on the Alpha Predator aspects of God. The suddenness and ferocity with which an apprehension of the Divine may appear to us; our smallness and fearfulness-may I say,...

At night, Toby breathed herself in. Her new self. Her skin smelled like honey and salt. And earth

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a...