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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.