Religion is pointing toward the moon

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.

Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.