You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.