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

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

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

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

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

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.