Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like..

The most powerful moral influence is example..

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province..

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On….

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets dr….

Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” ….

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries….

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source..

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany..

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to….

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world..

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other..

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the ….

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed..

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form..

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas ….

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder..

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery..

The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm..

Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles th….