All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.
There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.