I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

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

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

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

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.