“It does not matter whether we deny or affirm the existence of what the conventional world calls God. What matters is only that we are deeply and authentically concerned with questions of ultimate reality and ultimate value.”
Page 12, What is God
“I observed—at first vaguely, but eventually quite clearly—that when I thought about God our ultimate reality without any sense of the inner vibration of my being, then my thought simply raced ahead into complications and “ingenuity” without end or without substance. I became “clever” or “brilliant” or “imaginative”. And I pushed hard to be “right,” or “original,” or “bold,” or “up-to-date,” etc. I received “recognition,” and chose my friends accordingly, honing my ability to argue and score intellectual points.”
Page 17, What is God
“Unbeknownst to me, the question of who I was and the question of who or what God was—this was the same question!”
Page 31, What is God