When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.