Practice Giving Things Away, Not Just Things

...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 New Age Movement Looks Like A Mixed Bag. I See Much In It That Seems Good: It's Optimistic; It's Enthusiastic; It Has The Capacity For Belief. On The Debit Side, I Think One Needs To Distinguish Between Belief And Credulity. How Deep Does New Age Go? Has It Come To Terms With Radical Evil? More, I Am Not Sure How Much Social Conscience There Is In New Age Thinking.

Entheogens Are Not To Be Lightly Trifled With... However, If Taken With The Right Attitude And In The Proper Setting, Psychoactive Drugs May Produce Religious Experiences. ...it Is Far Less Clear That They Can Produce Religious Lives.

The Object Of Pilgrimage Is Not Rest And Recreation – To Get Away From It All. To Set Out On A Pilgrimage Is To Throw Down A Challenge To Everyday Life.

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