“We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.”

“If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. ”

“Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?”

“Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.”

“When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.”

“Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.”

“What a strange fellowship this is, the God seekers in every land, lifting their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to the God of all life. How does it sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange ethereal harmony? Does one faith carry the lead or do the parts share in counterpoint and antiphony where not in full throated chorus?We cannot know. All we can do is to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine.”