Science like art religion commerce warfare and even sleep is based on presuppositions.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

I know it's very idealistic and utopian but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion groups or nations or region.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people and mention how important it is that compassion is the key that it's the sine-qua-non of religion people look kind of balked and stubborn sometimes as much to say what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

There are some forms of religion that are bad just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex you have bad religion too.