History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. . . . Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times.
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.