"I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss
Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them
because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes
for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It
calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these
remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to
find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.”
“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at
all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The
grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such
numbness is a kind of mercy.”
“The old cobbler had believed in something he called "the signature of
all things"-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment
inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All
the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of
our Creator's love.”
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