the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.