“The spiritual path is a graceful opportunity for us. The fact that you and I even hear there is such a path is grace for a human life, from a karmic point of view. In a way, what the spiritual path offers is a chance for us to come back into the innate, compassionate quality of our heart and our intuitive wisdom. We can get back into the balance where, when we need our intellect, it’s available as a servant, but we are not ruled by it and trapped in our thinking mind. To me, that is well worth working toward. Most of the social, ecological, and political problems we have are the creation of the human intellect, along with all its benefits. The answer to that is the recognition of the unitive nature of all things and realizing you are nothing and therefore you are everything.”