Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.