Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]