"It is one of the illusions of rationalism that the universal principles of religion are more important than the rites and rituals that feed them; to make that claim is like contending that the branches and leaves of a tree are more important than the roots from which they grow." Page 3

"authentic religion is the clearest opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos enter human life." Page 9

"The glamour of yesterday I have come to see as tinsel." Page 15

"If you travel the universe saying of everything you see and conceive, "not this... not this," what remains will be God. Page 60

"Whence do we come, whither do we go, why are we here?—people want answers to these questions." Page 93

"A nation can assume that the phrase "under God" in its Pledge of Allegiance shows that its citizens believe in God when all it really...