We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

Everything that rises must converge.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.