"In short, an idea like Beauty has much in common with what many theists would call 'God'. Yet despite its transcendence, the ideas were to be found within the mind of man. we moderns experience thinking as an activity, as something that we do. Plato envisaged it as something which happens to the mind: the objects of thought were realities that were active in the intellect of the man who contemplated them. Like Socrates, he saw thought as a process of recollection, an apprehension of something we had always known but had forgotten."
- from A History of God, by Karen Armstrong
"Since I was cut from the reedbed, I have made this crying sound.
Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say, anyone pulled from a source longs to go back."
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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