Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

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.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

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.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.