All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.