For many people religion is a rigid concept, somewhat like a stone that is passed from generation to generation. We don't add to i...t, change it, or challenge it; we just pass it along. But even the most cursory study of the history of religions would undermine such a view. Religious traditions are far more like rivers than stones. Like the Ganges or the Gallatin, they are flowing or changing. Sometimes they dry up in arid land; sometimes they radically change course and move out to water new territory. All of us contribute to the river of our traditions. We do not know how we will change the river or be changed as we experience its currents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation--a proof of unwill...ingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not talk--we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »