The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.