Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.