"In his play St. Joan, Bernard Shaw has Joan say, 'I hear voices. They come from God.' Her friend replies, 'They come from your imagination.' Joan answers, 'Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.' Interreligious dialogue is surely a work of the imagination. It may not be for everyone. Yet we can imagine that two great contemplative and social traditions can meet as one to enrich each other and to work for the common good. We can image that the riches of centuries of Buddhist thought and practice can extend the boundaries of the Christian mind. We can imagine that Buddhist monasticism can include the insights of Jewish and Christian social teaching and service. We especially can imagine that Buddhists and Christians can labor together for justice and sit down together in peace. And after so much imagining we can spend our lives making all we have imagined come true."