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

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

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

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

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

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.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits