Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

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

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.