For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

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.

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.