There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.
I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don't know about.
There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
