As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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

All -isms end up in schisms.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

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