Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity ward and the crematorium, and that it is within that span that Christian concern must be exercised because that is all there is.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.