you never will enjoy the world alright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more then so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you; till you can sing and delight and rejoice in god, as misers do in gold,and kings in sceptres .... till you are as familiar with the ways of God , as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres... till you are familier with the way of God in all ages as with your walk and tables; till you are intimately acquainted with the shady nothing out of which world was made.''