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

The root of prayer is interior silence.

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.

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

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

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.