PLAYFULNESS OF GOD (YOUR LIFE IS A DREAM)
Perceive that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave. Grasp in your mind all this at once, all times and places, expanding it to all qualities and magnitudes together, and you can begin to see the play of the Divine.
- Hermes Trismegistus, quoted on p. 284 in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
Strawberries are too delicate to be picked by machine. The perfect ripe ones bruise at even too heavy a human touch...Every strawberry you have ever eaten - every piece of fruit - has been picked by callused human hands. Every piece of toast with jelly represents someone's knees, someone's aching back and hips, someone with a bandanna on her wrist to wipe away the sweat.
- Alison Luterman, quoted on p. 262 in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path