Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

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.