On the similar humanity beneath our diversity:

"When we explore beneath the surface of religious language, we find a questing human spirit seeking the divine in the accents of the day and in the context of the religious system in which each of us lives. Beneath our religious diversity there is a remarkably similar humanity. I am convinced that a religious unity that we have not dared hope for might now be dawning. Perhaps in the next hundred years we will come to think of the religions of the world as being as similar to one another as we today think the denominations of Christianity to be. That would be a major breakthrough in consciousness. To me such is not only possible, it is highly desirable."

On the similarities between Christianity and Hinduism:

"The Hindu path of righteousness called 'yoga' is not far removed from the disciplines of the Christian life that we call 'the way of the cross.' Both religious systems address universal human questions: the traumas of existence, the loneliness experienced by self-conscious lives in a vast universe, the reality of death, the illusion of individualism. Hinduism sees a unity between the physical and nonphysical worlds, between the human and the animal, between the human and the divine. Such unities are also being explored in modern physics and psychology as well as by Christian mystics and twentieth-century theologians such as Teilhard de Chardin.

"Christianity and Hinduism both seek from a sense of alienation to be at one with the universe. When we explore beneath the surface of religious language, we find a questing human spirit seeking the divine in the accents of the day and in the context of the religious system in which each of us lives. Beneath our religious diversity there is a remarkably similar humanity. I am convinced that a religious unity that we have not dared hope for might now be dawning. Perhaps in the next hundred years we will come to think of the religions of the world as being as similar to one another as we today think the denominations of Christianity to be. That would be a major breakthrough in consciousness. To me such is not only possible, it is highly desirable."