Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

God has no other hands than ours.

If you can't be the poet, be the poem.

I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

I want to always make sure I'm in good hands.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

As you can imagine, with Hillary Clinton being here, security is very tight. The Secret Service has been here all day sweeping the halls, the offices, the hard drives... It's tight.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit.