Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.