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

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

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.