Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

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.

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.

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

God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.