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“Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change- Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.”

“Your teachers. Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.”

“As wind, As water, As fire, As life, God Is both creative and destructive, Demanding and yielding, Sculptor and clay. God is Infinite Potential: God is Change.”

“"I didn't know what to do, so for some time I didn't do anything. Friends took care of me, cooked for me, cleaned the house. It surprised me that they would do that. Church people most of them. Neighbors. More her friends than mine."”

“No one can stop Change, but we all shape Change whether we mean to or not. I mean to guide and shape Earthseed into what it should be.”

“ "All right. But tell me, what do people have to do to be good members of an Earthseed Community?" A nice, door-opening question. "The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves, and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny." ”

“Stumbling across the truth isn't the same thing as making it up.”

“The Self must create Its own reasons for being. To shape God, Shape Self.”

“God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the rest of what we need within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny.”

“Changes. The galaxies move through space. The stars ignite, burn, age, cool, evolving. God is Change. God prevails.”