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

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

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.

It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment