If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

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.

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

...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.