The Illusion That We Are Separate From

The Idle Man Does Not Know What It Is To Enjoy Rest.

Since I Have Introduced This Term I Had Always A Bad Conscience. . . . I Cannot Help To Feel It Strongly And I Am Unable To Believe That Such An Ugly Thing Should Be Realized In Nature.

Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.

Do Not Grow Old, No Matter How Long You Live. Never Cease To Stand Like Curious Children Before The Great Mystery Into Which We Were Born.

It Is True That My Parents Were Worried Because I Began To Speak Fairly Late, So That They Even Consulted A Doctor. I Can't Say How Old I Was - But Surely Not Less Than Three.