…foreheads and said: remember, o man, that dust thou art and unto dust thou return. Do you remember the poem of g k Chesterton about dust? What a vile dust. The preacher said they thought the whole world woke. He goes on and he talks about everything…

…who had skulls in their cells to remind them of mortality and we think a grim thing. The skull is a grim thing, but Chesterton had the poem about the skull. Chattering finch and water fly are not merrier than I. Here among the flowers I lie laughing…

…be sincere, but not serious. God is not serious. Wouldn't it be awful if god were serious. I always love to quote g k Chesterton saying that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly, and if so how much more the lord of the angels. There's no…

…Eliot said: this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. And g k Chesterton replied: you may go off with a whimper, but we will go off with a bang. It might be glorious, you see to die dramatically.…

…it, and so in exactly the same way the world may be seen in all the multiplicity of its creatures as fabulous g k Chesterton once made a very profound remark when he said: it's one thing to wonder at a fabulous creature like a gorgon or griffin that…

…spirit is above all a man lacking in seriousness. He, as a man of courage, plays with his life. And to quote g k Chesterton again, he said the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. How much more so than the lord of the angels. I mean just…

…believe or I fancy. This passage happens to remind me of two other anecdotes. One passage in one of the essays of g k Chesterton where he says that he once wrote he was an egotist because he never talked about himself. And he observes that the printer,…

…observes that the printer, the proofreader corrected this passage to he was not an egotist because he never talked about himself. And Chesterton went on to reflect that very often it's just the egotist who is reluctant to say I. He explained he talks…

…He was not made to take it as if he were a human punching bag, and thus life forced him to discover what Chesterton called the splendid limitations of being a man, for the depth and quality of human consciousness is outlined and defined by its borders,…

…be sincere, but not serious. God is not serious. Wouldn't it be awful if god was serious. I often love to quote g k Chesterton saying that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. And if so how much more the lord of the angels, has there…

…that is the energy. And you can hold hands and sit around in a circle and go humming. And it sounds silly to Americans. They say what will happen to progress if people do that? Well as g k Chesterton said, progress is finding a good place to stop.

…a brief and intense flash? This said t s Eliot is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. And g k Chesterton counted him saying: you may go off with a whimper but we will go off with a bang. So we become prejudiced, we accept the…

…a brief and intense flash. This, said t s Eliot, is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. And g k Chesterton countered him saying: you may go off with a whimper, but we will go off with a bang. So we become prejudiced. We accept the…

…into the language of touch. And so likewise we have this difficulty in talking about smell to people who, as g k Chesterton said, they haven't got no noses and goodness only noses the noselessness of man. Well now there are other interesting things here,…

…are all many, many masks which the basic consciousness the basic mind of the universe is assuming, to use a verse from g k Chesterton. And now a great thing in the street seems any human nod were move in strange democracy the million masks of god. And…

…completely subordinate to mind, a certain kind of spiritual pride which in Christianity is the most insufferable of sins. G k Chesterton used to recommend as a spiritual exercise putting your head on the ground and looking between your legs so that you…

…woman is a woman every mountain after all, is a mountain but some mountains are more like mountains than others. As g k Chesterton once put it in a kind of satirical way, all religions are really the same religion especially Buddhism, and he was trying…

…the answer. I think of all the commentators on the book of job, the person who came closest to this point was old g k Chesterton. He once made the glorious remark that it is one thing to look with amazement at a gorgon or a griffin a creature who…

…earnest. I remember when I was a boy at school how wicked it was to laugh in church. We don't realize, as g k Chesterton said that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. And as Dante said in the paradiso, when he heard the song of the…

…had skulls in their cells to remind them of mortality and we think a grim thing. The skull is a grim thing, but Chesterton had the poem about the skull. Chattering finch and waterfly are not merrier than I. Here among the flowers I lie laughing…

…then begin to feel enclosed. That was a very important step, but a troublesome one. We don't feel in the lines of g k Chesterton. But now a great thing in the street seems any human nod where move in strange democracy the million masks of god? We…

…with me? And you see, that gives an entirely different meaning, because seriousness is a kind of gravity, and a gravity is a kind of weight, and that which is heavy is a drag it sinks. And g k Chesterton once very rightly said not only that there was,

…serious because I'm really with this rather than any kind of deep philosophy and so on so I suggest to you sincerely. G k Chesterton once said that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. How much more so than he, she who is lord of the…

…your own religion, you are very insecure in it. But what religions joke about themselves? Occasionally a Catholic like g k Chesterton will be very funny indeed about catholicism, but this is quite rare. Hindus very rarely joke about Hinduism. The people who…

…Zen but he's not taken seriously. And what do I mean? There is a difference between being serious and being sincere. And g k Chesterton to go back to him, once said that in frivolity there is a lightness which can rise, but in seriousness there is a…

…and said: remember, oh man, the dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return. Do you remember the poem of g k Chesterton about dust? What a vile dust the preacher said methought the whole world woke. He goes on and he talks about everything being…

…be anxious for tomorrow, you who are frivolous, of course. Same thing. And I told someone over lunch time that g k Chesterton said: angels fly because they take themselves lightly. See, there is a divine frivolity. The love that moves the sun and other…

…have a precise, I would say disciplined, clear sense of what they want and they get it. And then they stop. As g k Chesterton once wittily said, progress is looking for a place to stop. There are very few people like that. Most people, you see when…

…which is why hebrews have more humor in religion than Christians do. There are some exceptions to this. For example, g k Chesterton, a Great Catholic, had wonderful humor and some Catholics have this. But by and large the Christian Religion is serious, but…

…of humor is that they recognize this. Christianity on the whole with certain exceptions is devoid of humor. A man like g k Chesterton is a humorous Christian, but they're very rare whereas a jew can talk to god with a certain kind of banter and you…

…to seriousness. I think seriousness disappears altogether from a really integrated person. I always love the remark which g k Chesterton made in his book orthodoxy that the angels can fly. Because they take themselves lightly. Seriousness is heaviness. It…

…taste to be jocular about divine matters, about holy things. Indeed one of the most vigorous spokesmen of traditional Christianity, G k Chesterton, used to say that very often when he wrote the word cosmic in an article, the printer would print comic. And…

…I'm only speaking from memory he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the heathen to scorn, and that's not real humour, as Chesterton intended the idea of real humour because I think real humour, or the profoundest order of humour, is to be able to…

…the awareness, isn't it that you yourself, inwardly, are very incongruous with what you appear to be outwardly. Another remark that Chesterton made is that it is always funny to see somebody fall down, especially a dignified person fall down. It's always…

…Loudon, only with a slightly grieved tone in everything he says what I would call a humorously grieved tone. And this is g k Chesterton, a person whom I discover has had an enormous influence on my life, because when I was a late adolescent and when I…

…that unless you be converted and become as a child you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven this is the thing that Chesterton Understood in a very profound way because to a child the world is entirely new and therefore all of it is extraordinary. And…

…everything of being essentially magical. So there is a most extraordinary passage which occurs in one of the rarer books of Chesterton called the colored lands, where he makes this extraordinary remark. It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon…

…so far as I'm concerned, there is raised the problem of the sufferings experienced by those who are just and righteous. And Chesterton has written a great deal on the book of job and without quoting him directly I'm going to summarize what I've learned…

…that has no meaning is awful, a meaningless life. You see that we say about the most dreadful kind of life, but Chesterton is trying to say that the meaningless universe the nonsense universe is just great just because it doesn't mean anything. It is…

…smell: acrid, pungent and fragrant. All other words which we use to denote smell are borrowed from other senses. We are noseless. Chesterton put it in the line of one. Of his poems and goodness only noses the noselessness of man. Dogs, cats, all creatures…

…it. And so in exactly the same way the world may be seen in all the multiplicity of its creatures as fabulous. G k Chesterton once made a very profound remark when he said it's one thing to wonder at a fabulous creature like a gorgon or griffin that…

…spirit is above all a man lacking in seriousness. He, as a man of courage, plays with his life and to quote g k Chesterton again, he said: the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. How much more so then the lord of the angels. I mean just…

…the answer. I think of all the commentators on the book of job, the person who came closest to this point was old g k Chesterton. He once made the glorious remark that it is one thing to look with amazement at a gorgon or a griffin a creature who…