God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.