At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.