In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.