[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord!

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

I hate people in general, but you guys are cool with me.

Maybe when we stop looking at blessings as abundance we'll start appreciating the little we have.

Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.