“Lovers put out the candles and draw the curtains, when they wish to see the god and the goddess; and in the higher Communion, the night of thought is the light of perception.”

Linking human intimacy with mystical perception beyond ordinary reason · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta XIII

• Faith
• Love

“Greatly to live is such a burthen of joy that the sharpest pain of sacrifice is a welcome easement of it.”

Describing intense joy and sacrifice as strangely complementary experiences · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta XIV

• Faith
• Joy

“The most peculiar and characteristic mark of genius is insight into subjects which are dark to ordinary vision and for which ordinary language has no adequate expression.”

Defining genius as the ability to perceive what ordinary language struggles to express · Essay, Imagination

• Art
• Truth