Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.