Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn’t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.