To this realization he brings all his human--more, his sub-human--feelings and experiences: not only those which are vaguely called his spiritual intuitions, but the full weight of his impulsive and emotional life.

His experience and its interpretation are, then, inevitably conditioned by this apperceiving mass.

And here I think the intellect should show mercy, and not probe without remorse into those tender places where the heart and the spirit are at one.

Let us then be content to note, that when we consult the works of those who have best and most fully interpreted their religion in a universal sense, we find how careful they are to provide a category for this experience of a personally known and loved indwelling Divinity--man's Father, Lover, Saviour, ever-present Companion--which shall avoid its identification with the mere spirit of Nature, whilst safeguarding its immanence no less than its transcendent quality.

Thus, Julian of Norwich heard in her meditations the voice of God saying to her, "See! I am in all things! See! I lift never mine hand from off my works, nor ever shall!"[28] Is it possible to state more plainly the indivisible identity of the Spirit of Life?
"See! I am in _all_ things!" In the terrific energies of the stellar universe, and the smallest song of the birds.