Douglas E. Harding

"In Hell I am bent on finding myself in myself, but time destroys me; in Heaven I am bent on losing myself in Another, but eternity preserves me."

"The fact is that the Absolute which only absorbs, which demands the surrender of every self to itself, is the Devil. For God Himself, more than any creature, subjects Himself to the rule that it is not enough to find oneself in others: the others must be free and in no way coerced, must be independent Centres and not radii extending from one’s own Center. He is the guarantor of our distinctness from Himself and from one another; each of us is eternally unique and inviolable, for He needs every member of His Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth to be itself and no other."