Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of rig… - Huston Smith

They [Taoists] were fond of pointing out that the value of cups, windows, and doorways lies in the part of them that are not there.

What is distinctive in Hinduism is the amount of attention it has devoted to identifying basic spiritual personality types and the disciplines that are most likely to work for each. The result is a recognition, pervading the entire religion, that there are multiple paths to God, each calling for its distinctive mode of travel.

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.