There are legends of him (Khidr) in which, like Osiris, he is dismembered and reborn; and prophecies connecting him, like the Green Man, with the end of time. His name means the Green One or Verdant One, he is the voice of inspiration to the aspirant and committed artist. He can come as a white light or the gleam on a blade of grass, but more often as an inner mood. The sign of his presence is the ability to work or experience with tireless enthusiasm beyond one’s normal capacities. In this there may be a link across cultures,…one reason for the enthusiasm of the medieval sculptors for the Green Man may be that he was the source of inspiration. – William Anderson, Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force. – Mark Twain