Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most.
If I were asked under what sky the human mind…has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions to some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who ha...
Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God.
What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
The game can be won or lost, but not the player himself. If he has worked hard, he has improved his game and indeed his faculties; this happens in defeat fully as much as in victory. As the contestant...
In samadhi, the mind continues to think, but of no thing. This does not mean that it is thinking of nothing, that it is a total blank. It has perfected the paradox of seeing the invisible. It is fille...
After all our time living together, my identity is not self-contained: I am the way I am because she is the way she is. This marriage of true minds Shakespeare spoke of does not occur at the wedding n...
Sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this—the poets declare!2 Science
There are worse kinds of infidelity than the sexual. I was living with one of the most interesting women in the world, and too often my attention was elsewhere.
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
Emerson argued that the whole secret of the teacher’s force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the sou...
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one’s understanding of the ultimate nature of things.
The motions of the average mind, say the Hindus, are about as orderly as those of a crazed monkey cavorting in its cage. Nay, more; like the prancings of a drunk, crazed monkey. Even so we have not co...
The creative quietude of philosophical Taoism means to align one’s daily life to the Tao, to ride its boundless tide and delight in its flow…and to perfect a life of wu wei- pure effectiveness and cre...
Some friends accused me of whoring after the Infinite. Well, what better whoredom is there?
Raja yoga with asanas (poses and breathing) is a way of leading the inquirer to direct personal experience of the beyond that is within. Its method is willed introversion, one of the classic implement...
If my opinion that substance requires a true unity were founded only on a definition I had formulated in opposition to common usage, *then the dispute would be only one of words*. But besides the fact...
Derived from the root s-l-m, which means primarily peace but in a secondary sense surrender, its full connotation is the peace that comes when one’s life is surrendered to God. This makes Islam—togeth...
Building upon this early conception of the Church, Christians came to think of it as having a double aspect. Insofar as it consists of Christ and the Holy Spirit dwelling in people and suffusing them...