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

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

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

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

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

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

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.