The Faith I Was Born Into Formed

I Come From A Missionary Family - I Grew Up In China - And In My Case, My Religious Upbringing Was Positive. Of Course, Not Everyone Has This Experience. I Know Many Of My Students Are What I Have Come To Think Of As Wounded Christians Or Wounded Jews. What Came Through To Them Was Dogmatism And Moralism, And It Rubbed Them The Wrong Way.

Most Mystics Do Not Want To Read Religious Wisdom; They Want To Be It. A Postcard Of A Beautiful Lake Is Not A Beautiful Lake, And Sufis May Be Defined As Those Who Dance In The Lake.

...conversation Can Be As Mutually Incomprehensible As Foreign Languages. We Need The Different And Complementary Perspectives Of The Various Yogas - And Ideally Of All Religions - Not Only To Reach God But To Reach Each Other.

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

The Crisis That The World Finds Itself In As It Swings On The Hinge Of A New Millennium Is Located In Something Deeper Than Particular Ways Of Organizing Political Systems And Economies.