The Most Powerful Moral Influence

The Self Is Too Small An Object For Perpetual Enthusiasm.

One Reason Education Undoes Belief Is Its Teaching Of Evolution; Darwin's Own Drift From Orthodoxy To Agnosticism Was Symptomatic. Martin Lings Is Probably Right In Saying That More Cases Of Loss Of Religious Faith Are To Be Traced To The Theory Of Evolution ... Than To Anything Else.

...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.

The Heart Of Religion Is Not Altered States But Altered Traits Of Character. For Me, Then, The Test Of A Substance's Religious Worth Or Validity Is Not What Kind Of Far-out Experience It Can Produce, But Is The Life Improved By Its Use? That's The Test. Now, On That Score, If You Remove The "religious Cocoon," The Experiences Don't Seem To Have Much In The Way Of Discernible, Traceable Effects.

We Are A Blend Of Dust And Divinity.