To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.