The Gospel of Thomas really is, I believe, the clearest guide we have to the vision of the world's supreme mystical revolutionary, the teacher known as Jesus. To those who learn to unpack its sometimes cryptic sayings, the Gospel of Thomas offers a naked and dazzlingly subversive representation of Jesus' defining and most radical discovery: that the living Kingdom of God burns in us and surrounds us in glory at all moments, and the vast and passionate love-consciousness — what you might call "Kingdom-consciousness" — can help birth it into reality.
— Andrew Harvey, The Gospel of Thomas by Stevan Davies