Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

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

Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

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

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

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

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.