The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.