First Of All, My Persuasion Is What

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.

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.

...like A Magnetic Compass Turning North, I Always Tried To Head In The Direction Of The Better, Which Is The Direction To God. ...the Directions That Appeared To Lead Away From Christianity Led Me Deeper Into It.

Love Is The Movement Within Life That Carries Us, That Enables Us, That Causes Us To Break Out Of What Alan Watts Calls The “skin-encapsulated Ego.” Without Love, We Are Self-centered, But Love Enables Us To Move The Center Of Our Lives Outside Our Ego. Therefore It Expands Our Lives And, Needless To Say, Enriches It. Any Human Being Would Give Anything To Love Or Be Loved. When It Really Happens, It Is Like Heaven On Earth.

At The Center Of The Religious Life Is A Peculiar Kind Of Joy, The Prospect Of A Happy Ending That Blossoms From Necessarily Painful Ordeals, The Promise Of Human Difficulties Embraced And Overcome.