Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.