The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

God Chasers are people whose passion for being in His presence press them to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch them!

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.