To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
“The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.”
“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”