God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

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.

We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.

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