I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time. . . I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.
God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe. . . Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.