“It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.” MayI CanSpeakImaginationImagineFieldsArmsHigherDegreesAngelWaveInvisibleImagine That Author:Richard P. Feynman
“The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.” LooksMomentsLeftForceConsciousnessImaginePositionStrangeDespairAngelFundamentalsAssumingTerrorInstantQuestioningAngelicFlooding Book:Sixty stories Source: Sixty stories
“My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?” WantFeelsAbleBeautifulSpiritGivenImagineAngelBuiltOppositesWeightFoundationBoardsBellsTowersWretchedVeniceElevationScaffoldingTenementsLoving Friends Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!” IfsWantPoorImaginePrayingAngelFriars Author:Pio of Pietrelcina