Seeking Transcendence

“The world doesn’t need a new religion, but we desperately need a new way of thinking about the perfectly good religions we already have.”

Our neighbor who appears to be following a completely different tradition may in fact be worshipping or venerating the exact same citizens of Heaven that we are, no matter how different the personae under which they appear might look to us.

“Of all the crazy fuckers we are likely to talk about, Drukpa Kunley is likely to merit the title of craziest. Hands down, at least if we are to take the record of his exploits at face value.”

“If someone were to propose a movie based on the life of a young woman of the late Middle Ages who was functionally illiterate, yet managed to become a counselor to princes and an advisor to two Popes, you could be easily forgiven for dismissing the idea as simply too fantastic to be believable.”