…we see the unfolding of the mighty acts of god. Somehow history is a significant motion towards something extraordinarily good, as Tennyson put it that one far off divine event to which all creation moves. And I've been awfully suspicious of this for…

…man is right inside the ego itself, the very root of consciousness and will of the controller who is so impossible to control. Tennyson used to evoke this queerness of being an individual by repeating his own name, and the weirdness of I being I so…

…the feeling shifted from the uncanny to a joyous and exuberant certainty that down at the very center he was not Alfred Tennyson but that, as when the upanishads say: tat tvam asi, that art thou. Now unfortunately, all kinds of religious systems make this…

…natural way that you are the eternal self behind the whole thing. There's that wonderful passage that is quoted in memoirs of the poet Tennyson, where he describes the way in which as a young boy, he often used to be alone and used to repeat his own…

…you rascal, you fraud, you devil. You go on looking, you go deeper and deeper and deeper looking into your own eyes. Then Tennyson goes on to say: after he had said this name, Alfred to himself several times, he got this extraordinary feeling coming over…