If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.