I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of vi…

- Diana L. Eck

The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are alwa…

- Diana L. Eck

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one …

- Diana L. Eck

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the plurali…

- Diana L. Eck

Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and …

- Diana L. Eck

India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is…

- Diana L. Eck

My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way i…

- Diana L. Eck

Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean…

- Diana L. Eck

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

- Diana L. Eck