To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.