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.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

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.

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

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

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.