Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.

St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.