In Nature, The Emphasis Is In What

We All Carry It Within Us: Supreme Strength, The Fullness Of Wisdom, Unquenchable Joy. It Is Never Thwarted, And Cannot Be Destroyed.

With Mind Distracted, Never Thinking, "death Is Coming," To Slave Away On The Pointless Business Of Mundane Life, And Then To Come Out Empty--it Is A Tragic Error. (116) Trans By Robert Thurman

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.

People Are Not Losing Their Religious Needs, But They Are Going To Three Places To Get Their Needs Met. One Is To Conservative Churches, Which, For All Their Social Benightedness, Nevertheless Do Present Their Congregations With A Different View Of Reality. Second, They Are Going To Asian Religions. Third, They Are Going To The New Age, Which When I'm Feeling Cynical I Refer To As "new Age Frivolity," Because Some Of It Is Rather Flaky.

If Human Life Is To Survive On This Planet, The Old Dualistic Worldview, With People On One Side And The Environment On The Other, Must Yield To A New Vision That Connects Us With Everything Else And Leads Us To Care For And Take Responsibility For It.