Most Of The Book Deals With Things

The Proper Response To A Great Work Of Art Is To Enter It As Though There Were Nothing Else In The World.

Most Mystics Do Not Want To Read Religious Wisdom; They Want To Be It. A Postcard Of A Beautiful Lake Is Not A Beautiful Lake, And Sufis May Be Defined As Those Who Dance In The Lake.

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.

Every Society And Religion Has Rules, For Both Have Moral Laws. And The Essence Of Morality Consists, As In Art, Of Drawing The Line Somewhere.

When Historians Look Back On Our Century, They May Remember It Most, Not For Space Travel Or The Release Of Nuclear Energy, But As The Time When The Peoples Of The World First Came To Take One Another Seriously.