“God” must be an experience before “God” can be a word.

In concentrating on Jesus’ assurance that “then things will be better,” we miss his assurance that “now things can be better.”

While there’s a difference between divine grace and my free will, grace becomes grace in my free actions, in my decisions.

Tathagata, “he who has arrived.” His was a long, arduous journey toward the truth of Awakening; in fact, early tradition tells us that Buddha’s path to the transforming moment under the Bodhi Tree extends back over multiple lifetimes. But he did arrive. And this constitutes his attractive power – he shows, he embodies what all of us can achieve. Wh

What we are called to be faithful to is not the words themselves, but the way those words are supposed to form or reform our lives.

a better image for creation might be a pouring forth of God, an extension of God, in which the Divine carries on the divine activity of interrelating in and with and through creation.

Words are like telescopes with which we gaze into the mysterious heavens: only when we bring them to a focus do we see anything; without a focus, by trying to see too much, we don’t see anything at all.

to realize and enter into the non-dualistic, or unitive, heart of Christian experience – a way to be one with the Father, to live Christ’s life, to be not just a container of the Spirit but an embodiment and expression of the Spirit, to live by and with and in the Spirit, to live and move and have our being in God.

Enlightenment will naturally lead you to be concerned about and love others. You will, in Christian terms, love your neighbor as yourself. If Christians call this a “commandment,” for Buddhists it’s something that comes naturally, as part of the Enlightened experience of Nirvana or InterBeing.