One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.