Individual Human Beings Are So Subtly Developed

Man Only Progresses By Slowly Elaborating From Age To Age The Essence And The Totality Of A Universe Deposited Within Him.

We Now Know From Neural-net Technology That When There Are More Connections Between Points In A System, And There Is Greater Strength Between These Connections, There Will Be Sudden Leaps In Intelligence, Where Intelligence Is Defined As Success Rate In Performing A Task.

Do Not Forget That The Value And Interest Of Life Is Not So Much To Do Conspicuous Things...as To Do Ordinary Things With The Perception Of Their Enormous Value.

Without You, Without Your Onslaughts, Without Your Uprootings Of Us, We Should Remain All Our Lives Inert, Stagnant, Puerile, Ignorant Both Of Ourselves And Of God. You Who Batter Us And Then Dress Our Wounds, You Who Resist Us And Yield To Us, You Who Wreck And Build, You Who Shackle And Liberate, The Sap Of Our Souls, The Hand Of God, The Flesh Of Christ: It Is You, Matter, That I Bless.

Growing Old Is Like Being Increasingly Penalized For A Crime You Haven't Committed.