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

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.” ….

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

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline….

Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce ….

the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is n….

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere..

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them..

Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of rig….

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant ….

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives..

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times..

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see thing….

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious iss….

...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas -….

All -isms end up in schisms..

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organi….

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a….

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience..

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of p….

People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to conservative churches, which, for a….