I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.