“We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of thisthe p...”

“..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bibles puzzles; and it was always there in the ...”

“Weve made it private, contained it in family, when its audacity is in its potential to cross tribal lines. Weve fetishized it as romance, when its true measure is a quality of sustained, practical ...”

“Im helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are near enemies to every great virtuereactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subt...”

“You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.”

“If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but als...”

“Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?”

“If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?”

“Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”