Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going to go away? Because there are people whose personalities and gifts, and interests and soul, are simply immersed in living this kind of a spiritual lifestyle. That only makes sense. If you can live an artistic lifestyle, why can't somebody live a spiritual lifestyle? We've always, in every single great tradition, had a percentage of the population that stands in the middle of us being the beacon that calls us to realize that the spiritual life is an essential part of every life.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

Hospitality is simply love on the loose.

Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.