Most Of The Book Deals

We Are A Blend Of Dust And Divinity.

The Notion That Western Religions Are More Rigid Than Those Of Asia Is Overdrawn. Ours Is The Most Permissive Society History Has Ever Known - Almost The Only Thing That Is Forbidden Now Is To Forbid - And Asian Teachers And Their Progeny Play Up To This Propensity By Soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's Rules.

...primal People See The Objects Of This World Not (or Not Only) As Solid But As Open Windows To Their Divine Source.

We Become Compassionate Not From Altruism Which Denies The Self For The Sake Of The Other, But From The Insight That Sees And Feels One Is The Other.

A Religion Made Up Solely Of Heightened Religious Experiences Would Not Be A Religion At All. ...the Major Religious Traditions Address The Mysteries (with Or Without Entheogens), But They Have Other Business To Do: Widen Understanding, Give Meaning, Provide Solace, Promote Loving-kindness, And Connect Human Being To Human Being.