Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.